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pj at pjbrunet dot com
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Please keep it as close as possible to crunchbang. I am using crunchbang as my daily driver. Please don't stop maintaining this project

           

Solved. Jebus that was maddening. This is what I think is happening...

If I enable bitmap fonts, either through dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config or by symlinking 70-yes-bitmaps.conf and have the default preferences for Iceweasel, Firefox or Midori, and if Helvetica is specified in the web page's stylesheet, like "Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif", it renders horribly. In chromium, or if I disable bitmap fonts, or if I change Iceweasel's prefs to use a specific font like "sans", no problem.

The solution, from Debian Wiki Fonts/FAQ, was to include the following in my ~/.fonts.conf (before the final </fontconfig> tag)...

<!-- Helvetica is a non true type font, and will look bad. This
replaces it with whatever is the default sans-serif font -->

<match target="pattern" name="family" >
<test name="family" qual="any" >
<string>Helvetica</string>
</test>
<edit mode="assign" name="family" >
<string>sans-serif</string>
</edit>
</match>
<dir>/usr/share/fonts</dir>

Screenshot...
http://www.dumpyourphoto.com/files6/154 … zT3CpP.png

@Master P, I just meant that I don't have Philip's font configs on my rig. Thanks for the good wishes, they helped!

@el_ko, thanks for checking, my man.

Marking this [RESOLVED], though I'd love to hear opinions on why I was seeing this and others with bitmapped fonts enabled weren't, and why chromium rendered the page fine. Is the font getting cascaded to Arial or sans, and then the bitmap rendering messes them up? Here's another web page where the entire page rendered horribly until editing ~/.fonts.conf...
http://freecode.com/projects/xfstt

I'll also drop a line in the Font Task Force thread in case someone else experiences this. Thanks all!

-edit- This also solved another rendering issue I was having, where the text on some of the thumbnails in Iceweasel's New Tab Page was all jumbled.

sudo update-alternatives --config x-www-browser

update-alternatives --config x-www-browser
There are 5 choices for the alternative x-www-browser (providing /usr/bin/x-www-browser).

  Selection    Path                           Priority   Status
------------------------------------------------------------
  0            /usr/bin/firefox                200       auto mode
  1            /usr/bin/chromium               40        manual mode
  2            /usr/bin/chromium-browser       40        manual mode
* 3            /usr/bin/firefox                200       manual mode
  4            /usr/bin/google-chrome-stable   200       manual mode
  5            /usr/bin/iceweasel              70        manual mode

Press enter to keep the current choice *, or type selection number: 5
update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/iceweasel to provide /usr/bin/x-www-browser (x-www-browser) in manual mode

Have you looked for a version compatible with jessie/sid?

I found an unofficial d/l here

Hi there pjbrunet

I'm running sid, and have done so for about four months. My way of doing an upgrade is pretty simple. I start out with a fresh install of #! and don't run the cb-welcome upgrade script. Then in the sources.list I just keep one line (changed to sid):

deb http://http.debian.net/debian sid main contrib non-free

Delete the /etc/apt/preferences file.
Then:

sudo apt-get purge tint2 tint2conf slimconf

Then:

sudo service slim stop

Login and:

sudo su

Then:

apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade --no-install-recommends

Then:

apt-get install tint2

Restart your computer:

reboot

Now you are running sid

Comment out the janice repo and remove the preference pinning. Backup important data and prepare3 for breakage...
http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=29337
http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=37931
http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=38111

## CRUNCHBANG
## Compatible with Debian Wheezy, but use at your own risk.
#deb http://packages.crunchbang.org/janice janice main
#deb-src http://packages.crunchbang.org/janice janice main

# DEBIAN
deb http://http.debian.net/debian jessie main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://http.debian.net/debian jessie main contrib non-free

# DEBIAN SECURITY
deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main
#deb-src http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main

maybe you should mention which browser you speak of...

wheezy should have iceweasel 31 and that is what is in jessie also, so not sure switching to jessie is a fix for your problem

not sure which backports you are using but you can get iceweasel 35 for wheezy from  http://mozilla.debian.net/

I always download the browser from the guys that actually make the browser.  I don't need a middleman slowing down my browser's security updates.

the middleman in this case works for mozilla  so probably about as quick as it gets