Fonts after upgrade
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Fonts after upgrade
Hi,
I'm using Mate under linux mint debian.
Yesterday I did a system upgrade, after I reboot all the mate fonts have changed and I can't understand how to restore the previous status.
I don't know what fonts I had previously, but I tried some of them, and all of them do not look alright.
What is supposed to be the default mint x theme font family?
Thanks
I'm using Mate under linux mint debian.
Yesterday I did a system upgrade, after I reboot all the mate fonts have changed and I can't understand how to restore the previous status.
I don't know what fonts I had previously, but I tried some of them, and all of them do not look alright.
What is supposed to be the default mint x theme font family?
Thanks
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Re: Fonts after upgrade
This probably has something to do with the fact that LMDE now uses the upstream libcairo2/fontconfig packages instead of the patched Ubuntu ones. IMO fonts in Debian now look better than they were a few years ago, but still not as smooth as in Ubuntu.
Re: Fonts after upgrade
I too just upgraded and am seeing some strange font issues. Seems like they are ok after some tweaking in Mate but when I try to open up network connections..etc the font is completely white. Not sure what to make of that.
Re: Fonts after upgrade
mcg00sh,
i think that is a different issue, give us please the output of
i think that is a different issue, give us please the output of
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apt policy mint-x-theme mint-themes
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$ apt policy mint-x-theme mint-themes
mint-x-theme:
Installed: 1.0.7
Candidate: 1.0.7
Version table:
*** 1.0.7 0
700 http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
mint-themes:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1.0.8
Version table:
1.0.8 0
700 http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian/main amd64 Packages
Re: Fonts after upgrade
I have exactly the opposite
You should remove the one who is installed and install the one who is not
You should remove the one who is installed and install the one who is not
Re: Fonts after upgrade
yep, as killer is saying
mint-themes is now deprecating mint-x-themes (this last one is not gtk3.4 compatible and you can find a new compatible mint-x theme inside mint-themes)
mint-themes is now deprecating mint-x-themes (this last one is not gtk3.4 compatible and you can find a new compatible mint-x theme inside mint-themes)
Re: Fonts after upgrade
I have the following:
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mint-themes:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1.0.8
Version table:
1.0.8 0
700 http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian/main i386 Packages
mint-x-theme:
Installed: 1.0.7
Candidate: 1.0.7
Version table:
*** 1.0.7 0
700 http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian/main i386 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
Re: Fonts after upgrade
please install mint-themes
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apt install mint-themes
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thxzerozero wrote:please install mint-themesCode: Select all
apt install mint-themes
is monospace the default font?
Re: Fonts after upgrade
thx a lot mate!
the tweaking made an improvement
I'm using the same you sent me in screenshot, already much better, still feeling it wasn't the same situation I had before the update, but I guess I can go with those.
Re: Fonts after upgrade
Hi.
Is there a fix or a workaround available to make the fonts look better?
After the upgrade I noticed that the fonts don't look good.
Cheers
Is there a fix or a workaround available to make the fonts look better?
After the upgrade I noticed that the fonts don't look good.
Cheers
Re: Fonts after upgrade
Hmm, but that wiki section just repeats the same settings you can adjust in the Appearance preferences.
And actually... actually I thought all these complaints imply that smoothing, hinting and subpixel order are already set as shown above.
Why?
Because a) it's quite common to have these options set exactly as shown above and b) they are not reset or something like that when you upgrade to UP5.
And actually... actually I thought all these complaints imply that smoothing, hinting and subpixel order are already set as shown above.
Why?
Because a) it's quite common to have these options set exactly as shown above and b) they are not reset or something like that when you upgrade to UP5.
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Re: Fonts after upgrade
There has got to be an easy way to fix these stupid looking fonts! Something other than tweaking and frustrating ourselves for hours on end!
Re: Fonts after upgrade -HACK fix!
About the fonts issue after upgrade to UP5 in LMDE.
Those of us tracking SID ran into this issue a few months back. For me, personally the bad fonts only were an issue in browsers and a couple other (Un-remembered ) programs.
A fix, really a 'hack' was applied from here. http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php? ... 30#p400290
I found those instruction a little 'vague'.
This is my own experience. http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 85#p581985
USE AT YOUR OWN RISK....
It made a big difference in browsers.
Those of us tracking SID ran into this issue a few months back. For me, personally the bad fonts only were an issue in browsers and a couple other (Un-remembered ) programs.
A fix, really a 'hack' was applied from here. http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php? ... 30#p400290
I found those instruction a little 'vague'.
This is my own experience. http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 85#p581985
USE AT YOUR OWN RISK....
It made a big difference in browsers.
Re: Fonts after upgrade
Thinking out loud about what I've just read when I followed GeneC's links...
1. Reconfiguring fontconfig-config just changes a few symlinks in /etc/fonts/conf.d to point to the appropriate (depending on what has been chosen during the reconfiguration) files in /etc/fonts/conf.avail.
2. Ubuntu's fontconfig-config package has additional symlinks which are missing in Debian's one. For example, 11-lcdfilter-default.conf. Look at the file list and see for yourself.
3. I suspect that setting things in ~/.fonts.conf works only if there is the respective symlink in /etc/fonts/conf.d. For example, the lcdfilter option won't do anything unless you have /etc/fonts/conf.d/11-lcdfilter-default.conf pointing to ../conf.avail/11-lcd-filter-lcddefault.conf. This is just my speculation, please correct me if I'm wrong.
So here's what I've done. I didn't reconfigure fontconfig-config, didn't install Ubuntu's version of it, didn't even create and edit ~/.fonts.conf.
Just made a little script that makes all the missing symlinks (I hope I didn't miss any of them myself) and ran it as root.
Font quality got better. Immediately.
Though I have some doubts about some of the fonts (not all of them) in Firefox. And I don't use Chrome.
Moreover, my eyes are quite tired from today's tinkering with all this font stuff, so I may have missed something. Just test this script please and see if it works for you.
1. Reconfiguring fontconfig-config just changes a few symlinks in /etc/fonts/conf.d to point to the appropriate (depending on what has been chosen during the reconfiguration) files in /etc/fonts/conf.avail.
2. Ubuntu's fontconfig-config package has additional symlinks which are missing in Debian's one. For example, 11-lcdfilter-default.conf. Look at the file list and see for yourself.
3. I suspect that setting things in ~/.fonts.conf works only if there is the respective symlink in /etc/fonts/conf.d. For example, the lcdfilter option won't do anything unless you have /etc/fonts/conf.d/11-lcdfilter-default.conf pointing to ../conf.avail/11-lcd-filter-lcddefault.conf. This is just my speculation, please correct me if I'm wrong.
So here's what I've done. I didn't reconfigure fontconfig-config, didn't install Ubuntu's version of it, didn't even create and edit ~/.fonts.conf.
Just made a little script that makes all the missing symlinks (I hope I didn't miss any of them myself) and ran it as root.
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#!/bin/sh
WHOAMI=`whoami`
if [ x$WHOAMI != xroot ]; then
echo Please run me as root.
exit 1
fi
cd /etc/fonts/conf.d
ln -s ../conf.avail/10-antialias.conf 10-antialias.conf
ln -s ../conf.avail/10-hinting.conf 10-hinting.conf
ln -s ../conf.avail/10-hinting-slight.conf 10-hinting-slight.conf
ln -s ../conf.avail/11-lcdfilter-default.conf 11-lcdfilter-default.conf
ln -s ../conf.avail/53-monospace-lcd-filter.conf 53-monospace-lcd-filter.conf
Though I have some doubts about some of the fonts (not all of them) in Firefox. And I don't use Chrome.
Moreover, my eyes are quite tired from today's tinkering with all this font stuff, so I may have missed something. Just test this script please and see if it works for you.
Re: Fonts after upgrade
Thanks for the work Monsta. I will try it as soon as I come back home from work. I will give my feedbackMonsta wrote:Thinking out loud about what I've just read when I followed GeneC's links...
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Though I have some doubts about some of the fonts (not all of them) in Firefox. And I don't use Chrome.
Moreover, my eyes are quite tired from today's tinkering with all this font stuff, so I may have missed something. Just test this script please and see if it works for you.