On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Ananda Samaddar <ananda@samaddar.co.uk> wrote:

On 22 August 2010 11:03, Andre "Osku" Schmidt <andre.osku.schmidt@googlemail.com> wrote:

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Hello,

i now found out where my "ugly" fonts in firefox comes for some pages.

one page had this defined in css font:11px verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucida grande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;

and busybox.net has: font-family:lucida,helvetica,arial;

and both make firefox to use bitmap fonts from the packages xorg-fonts-75dpi xorg-fonts-100dpi

removing those packages (and having like ttf-dejavu installed) i havent found any webpage that would get any bitmap fonts assigned anymore.

so, anyone know how/what decides which fonts firefox gets ? (i have all i can set in firefox settings to dejavu)

and on same note, what packages even need xorg-fonts-100dpi and xorg-fonts-75dpi ? cant we replace those with ttf-dejavu in the xorg package ?

cheers .andre

ps. no, the solution is _not_ to install ms-fonts :P

Install liberation-ttf they're drop in replacements for the ms-fonts and are fully free.

nope, having ttf-liberation and xorg-fonts-75dpi and xorg-fonts-100dpi installed at the same time still makes firefox render bitmap fonts...

On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 6:27 PM, F. Gr. <fgr@anche.no> wrote:

2010-08-22 12:03 +0200, Andre "Osku" Schmidt wrote:

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what packages even need xorg-fonts-100dpi and xorg-fonts-75dpi ?

as written at <http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg#Program_requests_.22font_.27.28null.29.27.22>, it seems some program needs one of the two packages. One of this software is Emacs (even if I haven't got any xorg-fonts-*dpi package and it works fine :-)

ok, so even if no one knows a tool that really needs it, we pull them to be safe for very very rare cases. roger :P