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freetype2-infinality run-time settings => infinality compatible fontconfig => infinality-bundle
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Not able to change to Bitstream vera sans font styles in Arch mate desktop #60

Closed hadrons123 closed 9 years ago

hadrons123 commented 9 years ago

I use your binary repos for packages fontconfig-infinality-ultimate and freetype2-infinality-ultimate for my arch linux installation. I have the font style setup to default. Whenever I try to change my application fonts to 'Bitstream vera sans' it defaults to dejavu sans after I select Bitstream vera on the 'appearence preferences' menu. I can move to different font styles like cantarell or droid sans without any issues. If I remove your fontconfig -infinality-ultimate and replace with default Arch packages I am able to have bitstream vera sans fonts to be selected on mate desktop. Can you do something about this?

bohoomil commented 9 years ago

By default, Bitstream Vera is replaced by DejaVu family (see 37-repl-global-foo.conf). The reason:

The DejaVu fonts are modifications of the Bitstream Vera fonts designed for greater coverage of Unicode, as well as providing more styles. The Bitstream Vera family was limited mainly to the characters in the Basic Latin and Latin-1 Supplement portions of Unicode, roughly equivalent to ISO/IEC 8859-15, but was released with a license that permitted changes. The DejaVu fonts project was started with the aim to "provide a wider range of characters ... while maintaining the original look and feel through the process of collaborative development". (Wikipedia)

Are there any particular reasons why you don't want to use DejaVu instead?

hadrons123 commented 9 years ago

I wished I could use Bitstream vera sans. Looks like it is bug!

bohoomil commented 9 years ago

You can use it if you really want to:

  1. Duplicate the free preset if this is the one you're using, and save it as combi. Don't forget to rename the config files from *-free.conf to *-combi.conf.
  2. Edit 37-repl-global-combi.conf and comment lines 1264-1313 by adding <!-- at the beginning of the section and --> at the end.
  3. Run fc-presets set as root and set combi as a default preset.

That's it.

hadrons123 commented 9 years ago

thank you!

hadrons123 commented 9 years ago

Why would you mark this invalid?

bohoomil commented 9 years ago

Because this is not a bug. ;-)