@mavica_again Does "fc-match '*font you want*'" print the name of some other font?
@zwol it doesn't. it turns out this is by fault of me naively trying to use pcf and bdf fonts which the enlightened gnome pango developers know better than me than to let me do that
@mavica_again argh
@mavica_again What type of Linux are you running? (both distro and version if you know it)