Strange UI behavior (missing fonts, old GTK look-like windows, ...)

Question

My problem is really strange and I cannot even describe it perfectly. It happened about last week after some big Ubuntu update and after I restarted the PC few days later. After the restart I realized these changes:

• missing a lot of fonts that were previously present
  • realized when texts were displayed in strange way
• some UI windows look like from old GTK times
• in some UIs font is not rendered at all and accidentally appears or disappears...

First I thought it might be something with wine since I had the wine-devel installed but even after uninstalling wine-devel and installing back wine1.6 the problem is not solved. Also tried to uninstall wine completely without a solution.

Some thing are minor, like these GTK looking like windows, or that some font's are gone and I have to use some not so fancy Ubuntu fonts, but the thing with SoapUI for example just makes it almost not usable...

Any idea how to solve the problem?

EDIT:

I still think it's wine, because when using file upload form, the UI looks like on the first picture, and then the filled in file path is like C:\fakepath\[Filename], i.e. if I am uploading a file /home/shadyyx/Desktop/picture.png, the file path in the file upload input field is shown like C:\fakepath\picture.png (correct file is uploaded, so no functional impact).

Answer 1

OK, so I have fixed my problem. I tried to reinstall unity using

sudo apt-get install --reinstall ubuntu-desktop

which only downloaded 3k of bytes and after the sudo reboot the problems are apparently gone.

After restart I also got a warning about the mscore ttf font installer and after trying to fix this as well it seems everything is back to normal...

I am almost convinced wine broke something (especially after upgrade from stable win 1.6 to devel wine 2.1).

I hope this helps somebody trying the same wine upgrade and struggling with similar issues afterwards...