Made a Font Mess

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#1

openSUSE 12.1 x86_64 / KDE4.7.2. First time user. Installed and tweaked the tweaks regarding fonts that I found for the distro and still wasn’t happy with the end product, especially with chosen browser, Firefox. So I got to reading around and realised I could just drop a fonts folder into usr/share/fonts. So copied over and dropped the Windows 7 MS fonts folder off into it (using root) and rebooted. Got back to the desktop and things, text, looked different, I set things to MS Sans Serif for a test and was blown away at the difference, very pleased…

Opened up Firefox and Opera, both crashed instantly, so I uninstalled both. Reinstalled both, Opera still crashes instantly, Firefox will start but text is missing off tabs, etc. - Started both from terminal as root and both fire up and when I close out they crash and I get the output.

g12dot1test@ubuntu:~/Desktop/firefox> ~/firefox/firefox

(firefox:7764): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "oxygen-gtk",

(firefox:7764): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "oxygen-gtk",

(firefox:7764): Pango-WARNING **: failed to create cairo scaled font, expect ugly output. the offending font is 'Arial 8.9990234375'

(firefox:7764): Pango-WARNING **: font_face status is: out of memory

(firefox:7764): Pango-WARNING **: scaled_font status is: out of memory

(firefox:7764): Pango-WARNING **: shaping failure, expect ugly output. shape-engine='BasicEngineFc', font='Arial 8.9990234375', text='●'

(firefox:7764): Pango-WARNING **: failed to create cairo scaled font, expect ugly output. the offending font is 'Arial 9.013671875'

(firefox:7764): Pango-WARNING **: font_face status is: out of memory

(firefox:7764): Pango-WARNING **: scaled_font status is: out of memory

(firefox:7764): Pango-WARNING **: shaping failure, expect ugly output. shape-engine='BasicEngineFc', font='Arial 9.013671875', text='The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.'
Running global cleanup code from study base classes.
g12dot1test@ubuntu:~/Desktop/firefox>

Now, I’m pretty sure I could just delete the MS fonts folder I dropped into usr/share/fonts and all would be fine. But, I really like what I’ve got elsewhere.

Can this be resolved quickly / painlessly with me keeping what I’ve got at the moment and making my browsers work properly?

Hope so. Thanks for looking. :slight_smile:

#2

Try running


su -c "SuSEconfig"

then logout and back in.

#3

Also try installing fetchmsttfonts via Yast.

#4

Ok, thanks for that, tried both and still get the same error output. I also noticed a change in the font when I logged back in but it makes no difference to running each browser. I can see me deleting the MS Fonts folder and that making no difference at this rate. :stuck_out_tongue: