All of a sudden, after this upgrade, the characters in this font seem fixed
pitch and there is a wide gap between characters. All other fonts are OK.

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13041 has more info.

Recommend switching to another sans-type font for the time being.

Just FYI

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> All of a sudden, after this upgrade, the characters in this font seem fixed
> pitch and there is a wide gap between characters. All other fonts are OK.

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On Sun, 11 Apr 2004 07:26:56 -0400, Peter wrote:

> All of a sudden, after this upgrade, the characters in this font seem fixed
> pitch and there is a wide gap between characters. All other fonts are OK.
>
> http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13041 has more info.
>
> Recommend switching to another sans-type font for the time being.
>
> Just FYI

I have had the same problem for some time. I was not able to find the
cause of the problem. None of the suggested fixes (e.g. fc-cache -vf)
helped me. I was doomed to use H e l v e t i c a . . .

Today I formatted my machine and brought it up with the latest
slackware-current. Everything is sweet/awesome/kick-ass dude.

Regards,

Derek Weeks

Peter wrote:

> All of a sudden, after this upgrade, the characters in this font seem
> fixed pitch and there is a wide gap between characters. All other fonts
> are OK.

I had the same problem. The following corrected it for me:

Dropped out of X and issued the following:

cd /usr/X11/lib/fonts
find . -name 'fonts.dir' -exec rm {} \;
find . -name 'fonts.scale' -exec rm {} \;
find . -name 'fonts.cache-1' -exec rm {} \;
find . -type d -exec mkfontdir {} \;
find . -type d -exec mkfontscale {} \;
/usr/X11R6/bin/fc-cache