> I am using Debian unstable. After some of the recent upgrades my fonts > in GNOME2 have changed. Here is my old desktop: > > http://www.gnome.pl/~mst/files/screens/desktop.png > > and here is my new (with "narrow" fonts): > > http://www.gnome.pl/~mst/files/screens/desktop2.png > > Could you help me and tell, why the fonts have changed?
Due to a recent change in fontconfig, non-scalable fonts do not show up in GNOME apps by default. (There is a conifugration setting that controls this, and the default is to not provide bitmap fonts.) Maybe that is the problem? (See bug 183969.)
