Hi, guys! After I installed two font packages, ttf-arphic-gkai00mp and ttf-arphic-gbsn00lp, the fonts alias preference setting of san-serif family in my .fonts.conf just stop working. The specific section of my .fonts.conf file: <alias> <family>serif</family> <prefer> <family>Bitstream Vera Serif</family> <family>Georgia</family> <family>Times New Roman</family> </prefer> </alias> <alias> <family>san-serif</family> <prefer> <family>Tahoma</family> <family>Bitstream Vera Sans</family> <family>Verdana</family> <family>Arial</family> </prefer> </alias> <alias> <family>monospace</family> <prefer> <family>Courier New</family> <family>Bitstream Vera Sans Mono</family> </prefer> </alias> The default san-serif fonts should be "Tahoma", but it was set to "AR PL KaitiM GB", came with ttf-arphic-gkai00mp package, in both Gnome 2.12.3 and FVWM 2.5.16. But serif and monospace are not effected. Both /etc/fonts/fonts.conf and my $HOME/.fonts.conf are not edited. I tried to change some settings in .fonts.conf, and everything works fine except the san-serif family alias. No matter what font is on top of that list, "AR PL KaitiM GB" is displayed. My distro is Debian/Unstable, the versions of fontconfig and libfontconfig are 2.3.2-1.1, and the version of libxft2 is 2.1.8.2-3 I''m totally lost here, any help would be greatly appreciated.