diff -u notify-osd-0.9.24/src/util.c notify-osd-0.9.24/src/util.c
--- notify-osd-0.9.24/src/util.c
+++ notify-osd-0.9.24/src/util.c
@@ -260,81 +259,0 @@
-
-gdouble
-extract_point_size (const gchar* string)
-{
-	gdouble     point_size = 0;
-	GRegex*     regex      = NULL;
-	GMatchInfo* match_info = NULL;
-
-	// sanity check
-	if (!string)
-		return 0;
-
-	// setup regular expression to extract an integer from the end of string
-	regex = g_regex_new ("\\d+$", 0, 0, NULL);
-	if (!regex)
-		return 0;
-
-	// walk the string
-	g_regex_match (regex, string, 0, &match_info);
-	while (g_match_info_matches (match_info))
-	{
-		gchar* word = NULL;
-
-		word = g_match_info_fetch (match_info, 0);
-		if (word)
-		{
-			sscanf (word, "%f", &point_size);
-			g_free (word);
-		}
-
-		g_match_info_next (match_info, NULL);
-	}
-
-	// clean up
-	g_match_info_free (match_info);
-	g_regex_unref (regex);
-
-	return point_size;
-}
-
-GString*
-extract_font_face (const gchar* string)
-{
-	GRegex*     regex      = NULL;
-	GMatchInfo* match_info = NULL;
-	GString*    font_face  = NULL;
-
-	// sanity check
-	if (!string)
-		return NULL;
-
-	// extract font-face-name/style
-	font_face = g_string_new ("");
-	if (!font_face)
-		return NULL;
-
-	// setup regular expression to extract leading text before trailing int
-	regex = g_regex_new ("([A-Z a-z])+", 0, 0, NULL);
-
-	// walk the string
-	g_regex_match (regex, string, 0, &match_info);
-	while (g_match_info_matches (match_info))
-	{
-		gchar* word = NULL;
-
-		word = g_match_info_fetch (match_info, 0);
-		if (word)
-		{
-			g_string_append (font_face, word);
-			g_free (word);
-		}
-
-		g_match_info_next (match_info, NULL);
-	}
-
-	// clean up
-	g_match_info_free (match_info);
-	g_regex_unref (regex);
-
-	return font_face;
-}
diff -u notify-osd-0.9.24/src/defaults.c notify-osd-0.9.24/src/defaults.c
--- notify-osd-0.9.24/src/defaults.c
+++ notify-osd-0.9.24/src/defaults.c
@@ -175,10 +175,11 @@
 	GString*    string        = NULL;
 	GError*     error         = NULL;
 	gdouble     points        = 0;
-	GString*    font_face     = NULL;
+	gchar*      font_face     = NULL;
 	gdouble     dpi           = 0.0f;
 	gdouble     pixels_per_em = 0;
 	gchar*      font_name     = NULL;
+  PangoFontDescription* desc = NULL;
 
 	if (!IS_DEFAULTS (self))
 		return;
@@ -200,11 +201,17 @@
 	}
 	g_free ((gpointer) font_name);
 
-	// extract text point-size
-	points = extract_point_size (string->str);
+  // extract text point-size
+  desc = pango_font_description_from_string(string->str);
+  if (pango_font_description_get_size_is_absolute(desc))
+  {
+    points = (gdouble) pango_font_description_get_size(desc);
+  } else {
+    points = (gdouble) pango_font_description_get_size(desc) / PANGO_SCALE;
+  }
 
 	// extract font-face-name/style
-	font_face = extract_font_face (string->str);
+  font_face = pango_font_description_get_family(desc);
 
 	if (string != NULL)
 		g_string_free (string, TRUE);
@@ -212,8 +219,8 @@
 	/* update stored font-face name and clean up */
 	if (font_face != NULL)
 	{
-		g_object_set (self, "text-font-face", font_face->str, NULL);
-		g_string_free (font_face, TRUE);
+		g_object_set (self, "text-font-face", font_face, NULL);
+		g_free ((gpointer) font_face);
 	}
 
 	/* update stored system-font size (in pt!) */
diff -u notify-osd-0.9.24/src/util.h notify-osd-0.9.24/src/util.h
--- notify-osd-0.9.24/src/util.h
+++ notify-osd-0.9.24/src/util.h
@@ -54,6 +53,0 @@
-
-gdouble
-extract_point_size (const gchar* string);
-
-GString*
-extract_font_face (const gchar* string);
only in patch2:
unchanged:
--- notify-osd-0.9.24.orig/tests/test-text-filtering.c
+++ notify-osd-0.9.24/tests/test-text-filtering.c
@@ -102,49 +102,6 @@
 	}
 }
 
-static void
-test_extract_point_size ()
-{
-	static const IntegerExtraction tests[] = {
-		{ "", 0 },
-		{ "foobar", 0 },
-		{ "Bla Fasel -12.0", 0 },
-		{ "Sans 10", 10 },
-		{ "Candara 9", 9 },
-		{ "Bitstream Vera Serif Italic 1", 1 },
-		{ "Calibri Italic 100", 100 },
-		{ "Century Schoolbook L Italic 42", 42 },
-		{ NULL, 0 }
-	};
-
-	for (int i = 0; tests[i].before != NULL; i++)
-	{
-		guint extracted = extract_point_size (tests[i].before);
-		g_assert_cmpuint (extracted, ==, tests[i].expected);
-	}
-}
-
-static void
-test_extract_font_face ()
-{
-	static const TextComparisons tests[] = {
-		{ "", "" },
-		{ "Sans 10", "Sans " },
-		{ "Candara 9", "Candara " },
-		{ "Bitstream Vera Serif Italic 1", "Bitstream Vera Serif Italic " },
-		{ "Calibri Italic 100", "Calibri Italic " },
-		{ "Century Schoolbook L Italic 10", "Century Schoolbook L Italic " },
-		{ NULL, NULL }
-	};
-
-	for (int i = 0; tests[i].before != NULL; i++)
-	{
-		GString* filtered = extract_font_face (tests[i].before);
-		g_assert_cmpstr (filtered->str, ==, tests[i].expected);
-		g_string_free (filtered, TRUE);
-	}
-}
-
 GTestSuite *
 test_filtering_create_test_suite (void)
 {
@@ -156,8 +113,6 @@
 
 	g_test_suite_add(ts, TC(test_text_filter));
 	g_test_suite_add(ts, TC(test_newline_to_space));
-	g_test_suite_add(ts, TC(test_extract_point_size));
-	g_test_suite_add(ts, TC(test_extract_font_face));
 
 	return ts;
 }