On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 15:57 +1000, James Gregory wrote:
> Anyway, I've just worked this out. The trouble is that fontconfig on
> Ubuntu is configured to ignore my beautiful bitmap fonts. There's a file
> called /etc/fonts/conf.d/30-debconf-no-bitmaps.conf which has the
> express purpose of disabling those fonts.
> 
> Anyway, if you open that up and comment it out, or remove it by whatever
> means you desire, then you can follow the myriad sets of instructions on
> how to get back your old-skool fonts.

The Debian Way to do this is to run

dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig

and changing the "Enable bitmapped fonts by default" setting to Yes.
Although I'm currently using debian unstable, which seems to have moved
it from fontconfig to fontconfig-config.

I suspect that future upgrades of fontconfig will revert that file to
whatever setting debconf has (off by default), so it's probably worth
running the dpkg-reconfigure anyway.

Cheers,
-- 
Pete

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