[gobolinux-users] Fonts completely stuffed

[Jeremy Visser]

Lucas C. Villa Real wrote:
> I had a similar problem here, and I fixed that by editing
> /System/Settings/fonts.conf (or was it /S/S/fonts/fonts.conf?). It was
> just a matter of adding <dir> /Files/Fonts </dir> and <dir> ~/.fonts
> </dir> plus <cache> ~/.fonts-cache </cache> into it, as suggested by
> fontconfig every time it wasn't able to find the cache.

Yes, that has helped a lot.

Though I haven't actually tested it, I believe I know what caused it.

/Programs/Fontconfig/Settings/fonts/fonts.conf (which 
/S/S/fonts/fonts.conf is symlinked to) references "/usr/share/fonts" as 
its source of fonts.

/usr/share/fonts/truetype is symlinked to 
/Programs/OpenOffice/2.0.3/Shared/fonts/truetype, which is where the 
TrueType fonts for my system were coming from.

I did uninstall OpenOffice a few days ago, and now I see the connection 
between that and the problem, as I just noticed my 
/usr/share/fonts/truetype was broken.

/Files/Fonts/TrueType contains Bitstream Vera Sans also, so I don't 
understand why /usr/share/fonts/truetype didn't link there instead. 
Requiring OpenOffice to be installed for normal system operation seems 
stupid, although it was probably just accidental or an oversight. (Can 
this be fixed in 014? How can I help make that happen?)

Well, I'm going to go and change fonts.conf to reference /Files/Fonts, 
and I'm pretty sure it's going to work now.