system upgrades changed my fonts without my approval [solved]

[lonesomepoint]

This question may or may not have anything to do with MX, since I'm not sure why the problem occurred. I installed the accumulated system upgrades, and one of them changed my usual MX font (whatever it's called--I had little reason to check, since it never changed) to...screenshot attached. I don't like the new font. What application do I have to run to change it back? I don't know, I haven't tried playing with system fonts in living memory.

(P.S. No, I'm not in a liveCD environment, ref. the icon in the screenshot. I just have one in the drive.)

[MarkG]

You'r lucky, I have programs that nolonger work, last update audio stopped wotking, then another update and audio worked, another update (just the other day) audio gone again.

[skidoo]

lonesomepoint, an exact answer is provided in the MX Users Manual (Section 3.3.3)

[asqwerth]

Have you rebooted?

[Stevo]

The default font we use is Noto Sans at 10.5 pts.

[timkb4cq]

The only font related update I can see in the last month was to fontconfig and it's associated packages libfontconfig1 & fontconfig-config.
This should not have made a major difference in your fonts - but you can roll back to the debian version using:

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sudo apt-get install fontconfig=2.11.0-6.7+b1 libfontconfig1=2.11.0-6.7+b1 fontconfig-config=2.11.0-6.7

If that fixes your issue then you should pin those packages so they don't update.

[fehlix]

What application do I have to run to change it back?

Settings-> Appearance or just start on the CLI or command prompt ( Alt+F2 )

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xfce4-appearance-settings

And change back the default font to "Noto Sans" Size 10.5

xfce4-appearance-settings-default.png

[lonesomepoint]

Have you rebooted?

Done. That erased the change. I didn't think that would work, and am embarrassed that I didn't try.