Brian Leonard wrote: > On the Fonts tab under Appearance Preferences, the fonts are set to "Sans" > and "Serif" and "Monospace". However, I don't believe these are actual fonts > on my system but rather a map to a sans or serif or monospace font, true? If > so, where is this mapping defined and why the need for indirection?
The mapping is defined in the fontconfig files in /etc/fonts/conf.d/* and /etc/fonts/fonts.conf, which come from the upstream open source project (http://www.fontconfig.org/) - the generic mappings allow applications like GNOME to not have to know which fonts are installed on a particular system and leave all of that knowledge to fontconfig. The names used actually come from the HTML/CSS standards, so you'd need to have mappings for those to view common web pages anyway. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
