Condensed font instead of Sans Serif in KDE

Dear List,

For about a week, I have the following problem with my KDE
Desktop
(up-to-date sid i386): it seems that the systems selects
Dejavu Sans
Condensed instead of DejaVuSans, when "Sans" is
selected in Kcontrol.
It results in a very ugly desktop. I got already this
problem in the
beginning of December. It was then a problem with fontconfig
and
ttf-dejavu, that was fixed by an upgrade of the system. But
then the
problem reappeared a few days ago, and I do not know how to
fix it.

I tried to dpkg-reconfigure several packages : fontconfig,
fontconfig-config, defoma, ttf-deja-vu, to purge and
reinstall them,
but nothing changed. The only solution I found was to remove
the
Condensed fonts from /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu,
but it does
not seem to be a good way of doing things in the long term.

I was not able to find a bug report concerning this problem.
Moreover,
I have two others machines (powerpc and amd64) who do not
suffer from
this problem (they did not suffer either when the same
problem occured
a few weeks ago, since the versions of fontconfig/ttf-dejavu
causing
the problem were not installed).

Does anybody know how I could fix this problem more properly
than just
removing the files ? Only KDE applications suffer from this
problem :
texmaker and iceweasel are displayed correctly.

Thanks in advance,

Cedric


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Cédric Boutillier wrote, On 29/12/06 01:34:
> Dear List,
> 
> For about a week, I have the following problem with my
KDE Desktop
> (up-to-date sid i386): it seems that the systems
selects Dejavu Sans
> Condensed instead of DejaVuSans, when "Sans"
is selected in Kcontrol.
> It results in a very ugly desktop. I got already this
problem in the
> beginning of December. It was then a problem with
fontconfig and
> ttf-dejavu, that was fixed by an upgrade of the system.
But then the
> problem reappeared a few days ago, and I do not know
how to fix it.
> 
> I tried to dpkg-reconfigure several packages :
fontconfig,
> fontconfig-config, defoma, ttf-deja-vu, to purge and
reinstall them,
> but nothing changed. The only solution I found was to
remove the
> Condensed fonts from
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu, but it does
> not seem to be a good way of doing things in the long
term.
> 
> I was not able to find a bug report concerning this
problem. Moreover,
> I have two others machines (powerpc and amd64) who do
not suffer from
> this problem (they did not suffer either when the same
problem occured
> a few weeks ago, since the versions of
fontconfig/ttf-dejavu causing
> the problem were not installed).
> 
> Does anybody know how I could fix this problem more
properly than just
> removing the files ? Only KDE applications suffer from
this problem :
> texmaker and iceweasel are displayed correctly.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Cedric
> 
> 

Is it anything to do with what I reported here:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=401924

Arthur.


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Hi,

2006 m. gruodis 28 d., ketvirtadienis 17:37, Arthur Marsh
rašė:
> Is it anything to do with what I reported here:
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=401924
Indeed, it's related. qt does not call
FcDefaultSubstitute(), only 
FcConfigSubstitute(). However, calling FcDefaultSubstitute()
after 
FcConfigSubstitute() introduces a regression - font size for
"Sans 
Serif", "Serif", "Monotype" becomes
2 points smaller than it should normally 
be. Anyway, I'm working on this.

Hi,

Arthur, the symptoms indeed are the same as the ones you
describe in
your bug report. I tried to install ttf-bitstream-vera to
see if I
could see some improvement, I reinstalled ttf-dejavu to put
back the
Condensed fonts where they should be, then I purged
ttf-bistream-vera.
And strangely enough, this seems to have solved the problem.
I must
admitt that I have no clue why...

Anyway, thank you all for you help.

Best regards,

Cedric


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Hi,

2006 m. gruodis 28 d., ketvirtadienis 18:36, Cédric
Boutillier rašė:
> Condensed fonts where they should be, then I purged
ttf-bistream-vera.
> And strangely enough, this seems to have solved the
problem. I must
> admitt that I have no clue why...
Are you sure you've removed bitstream-fonts? Try
regenerating font cache

# fc-cache -fv

I don't see how you could solve this bug that way.

Hi Modestas,

I am away from that computer for a week. I will try that
when I come back.

Cédric

On 12/29/06, Modestas Vainius <geromanasmailas.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 2006 m. gruodis 28 d., ketvirtadienis 18:36, Cédric
Boutillier rašė:
> > Condensed fonts where they should be, then I
purged ttf-bistream-vera.
> > And strangely enough, this seems to have solved
the problem. I must
> > admitt that I have no clue why...
> Are you sure you've removed bitstream-fonts? Try
regenerating font cache
>
> # fc-cache -fv
>
> I don't see how you could solve this bug that way.
>
>
>