[PLUG] Browser fonts for 1280x1024 monitor resolution

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Mon Feb 10 16:53:18 UTC 2020


On Mon, 10 Feb 2020, Ben Koenig wrote:

> Firefox is probably reading from the font cache, not the font files
> themselves. If you manually copied fonts into the appropriate directory
> then you probably want to run the commands to regenerate these cache files.
> I think slackware does this on boot, but I don't actually remember right
> now. Since firefox can't see them it's probably a cache thing and executing
> the appropriate fontconfig commands will fix that.

Thanks, Ben. I completely forgot about 'mkfontdir
/usr/share/fonts/{TTF,OTF}', 'mkfontscale /usr/share/fonts/{TTF,OTF}', and 'fc-cache -f
-v'.

Rich





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