On Sun, 2018-07-08 at 07:58 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 07/08/18 07:09, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Sat, 2018-07-07 at 12:16 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > I was fooling around with the Settings panel and must have done
> > something I shouldn't, because now the fonts for KDE apps are all
> > wrong. GTK apps are unaffected. I enclose a small screenshot to
> > illustrate. Note that the left-hand side looks fine, while the right-
> > hand side is clearly wrong. The same fuzziness affects the Plasma panel
> > and the Konsole fonts.
> >
> > I've no recollection of touching the font configuration, but I guess
> > anything is possible. How can I restore sanity?
>
> Still no idea what happened, but after trolling through a backup and
> 'diff'ing some files, the culprit turned out to be lurking in
> ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf, which had some missing lines.
> Restoring it fixed the problem.
Which reminds me. Something like that hasn't happened to me in a while. But when I
did notice something odd while tinkering it was *sometimes* helpful to do
find ~/.config -cmin -1
or an appropriate time.
That was what I did, but with -mtime, then used diff on the results.
poc