[Interest] Fonts and Qt5

[Thiago Macieira]

On Monday 14 December 2015 10:18:52 Duane wrote:
> One thing that I notice is that for my Linux build, if I check the font
> family using QApplciation::font(), on Qt4 I get DejaVu which exists on
> my system and the point size is 12.  With Qt5 this returns "Sans Serif"
> which doesn't exist and the point size is 9.  If I set the Qt5 version
> to use DejaVu with a point size of 12 this works.

> Any idea what is different here?  Does the "default" Qt that gets
> installed with the online installer or maintenance tool have fontconfig
> support built in or not?

It does, which is why "Sans Serif" exists. It's not a font, it's a standard 
name and fontconfig will resolve that to an ok sans serif font.

Make sure you don't have a font configured for Qt 4 with qtconfig. If you do, 
remove ~/.config/Trolltech.conf.
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