dejavu fonts question

[Michael Gmelin]

On Mon, 30 Mar 2015 16:00:18 +0200
Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 04:17:17AM -0700, Jeffrey Bouquet wrote:
> > xorg-fonts-truetype needs x11-fonts/dejavu.   This latter port
> > breaks all the menus on Opera, here. As well as wikipedia pages...
> > which then need to be viewed with Seamonkey.
> > 
> > [pkg delete -f dejavu, if I had known earlier, would have saved me
> > over twenty-odd hours of debugging ]... As it is, I've restored
> > Opera functionality but cannot install vimb, chromium, etc because
> > of the dependency.
> > 
> > Workaround or removal of the dejavu port from the
> > xorg-fonts-truetype one?
> 
> The issue is on the Opera side, and from what I can read out there
> has been fixed in Opera 24+ while we are still in Opera 12.16.
> 
> DejaVu is quite a common font now, it would be bad imho to remove it
> from the truetype list of fonts.
> 

You can change the fonts used in Opera's menus by using qtconfig
(assuming you're using the QT version of it) and in general you can
change fonts under Tools->Preferences->Fonts (I'm using DejaVu Sans
there without any issues by the way, maybe it's an xserver issue/dpi
or another setting).


-- 
Michael Gmelin