installation of new fonts changes default monospace font

[Timmie]

I installed a cpuple of new fonts with
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{{{ sudo apt-get install ttf-gentium ttf-dustin ttf-georgewilliams ttf-sjfonts sun-java6-fonts ttf-larabie-deco ttf-larabie-straight ttf-larabie-uncommon ttf-fossfonts}}}
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After that my monospace font was changed without asking me on the whole system (Thunderbird, Firefox, Terminal).

Before I had the Verdana -like default font. Now I have to read my mails with a ugly typewriter font.

Why this?

[Pascal De Vuyst (pascal-devuyst)]

Which version of Ubuntu are you using?
You should be able to select the monospace font you want in gnome-font-properties (System -> Administration -> Font Properties).

[Alexander Jones (alex-weej)]

This happens in Gutsy. The default aliasing for Monospace is to DejaVu Sans Mono.

The replacement is pretty catastrophically thin and small.

[Michael R. Head (burner)]

FYI, the solution is to remove ttf-georgewilliams

[Timmie (timmie)]

Hello,
ttf-georgewilliams isn't installed anymore and the monospace fonts in thunderbird is still very ugly.

It is a shame the just the installation of arbitrary fonts can just change so many settings in a different program.

Why that?

[Timmie (timmie)]

here is a list of fonts that are installed on my system (7.04):

~$: dpkg -l |grep ttf-
ii ttf-arabeyes 1.1-6 Arabeyes GPL TrueType Arabic fonts
ii ttf-arphic-ukai 0.1.20060928-2 "AR PL ZenKai Uni" Chinese Unicode TrueType
ii ttf-arphic-uming 0.1.20060928-2ubuntu3 "AR PL ShanHeiSun Uni" Chinese Unicode TrueT
ii ttf-baekmuk 2.2-1ubuntu3 Baekmuk series TrueType fonts
ii ttf-bengali-fonts 0.4.7.3 Free TrueType fonts for the Bengali language
ii ttf-bitstream-vera 1.10-7 The Bitstream Vera family of free TrueType f
ii ttf-dejavu 2.14-2 Vera font family derivate with additional ch
ii ttf-devanagari-fonts 0.4.7.3 Free TrueType fonts for languages using the
rc ttf-dustin 20030517-4 Various TrueType fonts from dustismo.com
ii ttf-freefont 20060501cvs-10 Freefont Serif, Sans and Mono Truetype fonts
ii ttf-gentium 1.02-2ubuntu2 Gentium TrueType font
rc ttf-georgewilliams 1.0-1 Free unicode TrueType fonts by George Willia
ii ttf-gujarati-fonts 0.4.7.3 Free TrueType fonts for the Gujarati languag
ii ttf-indic-fonts 0.4.7.3 Metapackage for free Indian language fonts
rc ttf-isabella 1.01-6ubuntu1 The Isabella free TrueType font
ii ttf-kannada-fonts 0.4.7.3 Free TrueType fonts for the Kannada language
ii ttf-kochi-gothic 1.0.20030809-4ubuntu2 Kochi Subst Gothic Japanese TrueType font wi
ii ttf-kochi-mincho 1.0.20030809-4ubuntu2 Kochi Subst Mincho Japanese TrueType font wi
ii ttf-lao 0.0.20060226-2 TrueType font for Lao language
ii ttf-malayalam-fonts 0.4.7.3 Free TrueType fonts for the Malayalam langua
ii ttf-mgopen 1.1-2 Magenta Open Truetype fonts
ii ttf-opensymbol 2.2.0-1ubuntu4 The OpenSymbol TrueType font
ii ttf-oriya-fonts 0.4.7.3 Free TrueType fonts for the Oriya language
ii ttf-punjabi-fonts 0.4.7.3 Free TrueType fonts for the Punja...