On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 7:58 PM, Ankur Sethi <get.me.ankur@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

I recently installed emacs-color-theme from AUR which, for some reason, required xorg-fonts-100dpi. After installing xorg-fonts-100dpi, some websites in Firefox no longer have antialiased fonts. For example, this is what the Mozilla Developer Center looks like on my computer:

       http://imagebin.org/203464

I see the same issue on Twitter, Hacker News and several blogs. Removing xorg-fonts-100dpi fixes the issue.

I've checked my installed pacakges and I have all the web fonts that are recommended by the Arch Wiki. In any case, I don't think missing fonts are the issue here. The same websites that look wonky in Firefox work well on both Chrome and Opera.

Secondly, the emacs-color-theme package from AUR works just fine without xorg-fonts-100dpi. I don't understand why that is listed as a dependency in the PKGBUILD.

So can someone enlighten me? Why does emacs-color-theme require xorg-fonts-100dpi, and why does installing xorg-fonts-100dpi make Firefox sad?

-- Ankur Sethi

Try the following: sudo ln -s ../conf.avail/70-no-bitmaps.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d That should reject bitmap fonts in all applications using fontconfig. To revert this change: sudo rm /etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf