On Sat, 1 Jun 2019 20:38:31 -0400 Tom Horsley wrote:
So who knows where besides ~/.config/google-chrome google-chrome will get information? Because something about my user screws it up even when I try to start from scratch with no saved profile.
Amazing! I actually found it. ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf had this stuff in it (for years and years and years in order to make fonts look better when fedora was going through a long "spindly" phase for fonts):
<?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd"> <fontconfig> <match target="font" > <edit mode="assign" name="rgba" > <const>none</const> </edit> </match> <match target="font" > <edit mode="assign" name="hinting" > <bool>true</bool> </edit> </match> <match target="font" > <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle" > <const>hintfull</const> </edit> </match> <match target="font" > <edit mode="assign" name="antialias" > <bool>true</bool> </edit> </match> </fontconfig>
Renaming that file allows Oswald to render correctly.
What it is about Oswald (and no other fonts I checked) that makes it screw up so badly, I have no idea.
It doesn't happen in firefox even though that fonts.conf file would (I imagine) affect it as well.