Package: base Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
Fixed [Misc] and Fixed [Trad] font Medium Semi-Condensed displays as the wrong font when selecting font size 10. I've re-installed Debian several times and each time this bug crops up. How I reproduced it this time: * install base system, with default debian desktop environment * install xfonts-traditional-1.6 package * make appropriate symlink changes to enable bitmap fonts * logout then back in to restart X then: * go into gedit / Edit / Preferences / Fonts & Colours * select editir font Fixed Medium Semi-Condensed size 10 * save changes * font is all wrong in editor (shows a completely different font - see links to Kate screenshots lower in this message) A similar thing happens in Kate and Kwrite (which I use all of the time), except that it appears to work at first, but if I then close Kate and re-open, it's all messed up again. After freshly setting it in Kate, this is how it looks (all OK): http://quitebig.com/debian-font-problem/kate-nice.png But if I close Kate and re-open it, it looks like this: http://quitebig.com/debian-font-problem/kate-nasty.png With Terminal (this is minor): * open terminal and go to preferences for editing default profile, tab "General" * select Fixed Medium Semi-Condensed 10 point then click "Select" in dialog bottom right * font shows incorrectly in the "Font" select box but works OK in the terminal itself I also tried James Knoble's xfonts-jmk-3.0.19 package, but hit upon the same problem. I tried setting up the fonts before adding the Nvidia driver on a fresh OS installation, after adding the Nvidia driver, adding KDE4, adding XFCE, but whatever I did, nothing fixed it. The problem doesn't seem to happen for other sizes of Fixed Medium Semi- Condensed, or does it happen with the bold version of the font (even at 10pt). Every time the font displays incorrectly, it shows the same incorrect font. This might only seem like a minor bug, but for me it's a deal-breaker. I use terminal windows, Kate and Kwrite all day every day, and I'm still using an old setup running KDE 3.5 so that I can keep this font, as it's the best combination I've found of compactness and readability. I'd much prefer to use my Debian installation but until I can get this font to display correctly, that's not an option. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that this is a quick and easy fix :) -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.8 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
