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Weird font in tabs and sidebar

#1

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14808412/sublime_font_problem.png

Sublime Text 2 seems to miss a font or something, because the text in the sidebar and the tabs is rendered ugly. I’ve reinstalled Sublime Text 2, but it doesn’t seem to help. Even ST3 show the same issue on my system (Linux Mint 15 XFCE). My guess is, that the needed default font is missing, but i dont know how to set a different one in the theme options.

Console output (shows no error):

startup, version: 2221 linux x64 channel: stable
executable: /home/anli/bin/sublime_text_2/sublime_text
working dir: /home/anli
packages path: /home/anli/.config/sublime-text-2/Packages
settings path: /home/anli/.config/sublime-text-2/Settings
PackageSetup not required
Py_GetProgramName(): sublime_text
Py_GetExecPrefix(): .
Py_GetProgramFullPath(): 
Py_GetPath(): ./lib/python26.zip:./lib/python2.6/:./lib/python2.6/plat-linux2:./lib/python2.6/lib-tk:./lib/python2.6/lib-old:./lib/python2.6/lib-dynload
Py_GetPythonHome(): .
catalogue loaded
found 4 files for base name Default.sublime-keymap
found 1 files for base name Default.sublime-mousemap
found 2 files for base name Main.sublime-menu
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plugin init time: 0.091661
loading bindings
loading pointer bindings
found 1 files for base name Default.sublime-theme
theme loaded
app ready
pre session restore time: 0.261338
using gamma: 1 (err: 0)
wrote startup cache, added files: 73 orphaned files: 0 total files: 95 cache hits: 22
startup time: 0.467763 (package setup was not run)
loaded 837 snippets
Package Control: Skipping automatic upgrade, last run at 2013-10-11 10:03:17, next run at 2013-10-11 11:03:17 or after
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#2

Update: I recently installed Helvetica Neue in my .fonts/ directory. When i remove this fonts, the ST2 and ST3 are using the default font. Why are they using Helvetica Neue when it is installed?!

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#3

I reinstalled the *msttcorefonts

  • and the problem seems to be fixed:
sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts && fc-cache -fv
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