[feisty] Monospace font is no longer Bitstream Vera Sans Mono (or DejaVu Sans Mono)?

[Michael R. Head]

On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 16:47 +0300, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 01:58:35AM -0400, Michael R. Head wrote:
> > I've noticed lately that the virtual Monospace font (as provited by
> > fontconfig, I guess) is returning something looking like Courier rather
> > than Bitstream Vera Sans Mono or DejaVu Sans Mono. I can't figure out
> > how to change this back so I get the nice looking sans mono fonts. 
> > 
> > BTW, I'd rather fix this in fontconfig (or pango, maybe?) than in
> > gnome-font-properties.
> 
> I've heard that there's a font that is actually called 'Monospace' and
> that, if you install it, takes precedence over the usual aliases.

Yup. That's what I discovered and reported in my [resolved] post on
March 24 :-) 

The font is in the ttf-georgewilliams package. I also created a bug
report about it:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gw-fonts-ttf/+bug/95357
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=395487

> In a terminal window you can type
> 
>   $ fc-match monospace
> 
> to see which font you get, and dpkg -S filename.ttf to see which package
> contains it.
> 
> Marius Gedminas
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