Comment 3 for bug 574409

I have also found the same problem.

I have just upgraded to maverick 10.10; some of the truetype fonts that were previously available to X windows are no longer available. In particular, I have been using Bitstream Vera Sans, a package that is no longer part of Ubuntu. Its replacement is Dejavu Sans Mono. However, after installation, this is not listed by xlsfonts and cannot be viewed with xfontsel.

To use the Bitsream font with xosview, for example, I previously used the following line in ~/.Xdefaults:

xosview*font: -*-bitstream vera sans-medium-r-normal-*-*-100-*-*-*-*-*-*

There seems to be no equivalent XLFD generated for the Dejavu font.

On searching for information it seems that the packages defoma and x-ttcidfont-conf are involved. In my installation the directory /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType does not contain any link to the ttf files in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu

It would appear that the installation has been partially successful but the defoma-hints process has not been completed. Any ideas?