Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 11:58:15 +0100 From: Jan Beich <jbeich@FreeBSD.org> To: Brett Wiggins <s3682305@student.rmit.edu.au> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: trying to get fonts working in X11 Message-ID: <vaht-jqrc-wny@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <CA%2B3bzRKcmPDK8WGC8mk0uF5YwdvHyzPjuRC1xbZoA134E7ts7w@mail.gmail.com> (Brett Wiggins's message of "Wed, 29 Nov 2017 17:57:03 %2B1100") References: <CA%2B3bzRKcmPDK8WGC8mk0uF5YwdvHyzPjuRC1xbZoA134E7ts7w@mail.gmail.com>
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Brett Wiggins <s3682305@student.rmit.edu.au> writes:
> Is the ownership of the directories or files a problem? I changed all of
> the directories to 777 but that doesn't seem to do anything. I have run
> xset on every directory, but in my dekstop applications such as firefox,
> the text is still hard to read. Below is info regarding my system. Any help
> would be appreciated.
Firefox via Pango uses fontconfig. While "xset fp" or FontPath in
xorg.conf are still supported they rarely look good. Check fc-list or
fc-match instead. For one, to replace default sans-serif font try
$ mkdir -p ~/.config/fontconfig/conf.d/
$ cat <<EOF >~/.config/fontconfig/conf.d/50-local.conf
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "../fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
<alias>
<family>sans-serif</family>
<prefer>
<family>Roboto</family>
</prefer>
</alias>
</fontconfig>
EOF
$ fc-match sans
Roboto-Regular.ttf: "Roboto" "Regular"
$ firefox https://en.wikipedia.org
Read fonts-conf(5) manpage for more details.
If a web page still uses a different font open "Inspect Element", check
what CSS rule requested and adjust fontconfig. For one, you can configure
for Arial to be displayed as Roboto. ;)
Removing unused fonts is another option.
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