Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 08:55:42 -0600 From: Robin Damm <robin@damm.ca> To: John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: odd lack of fonts in Mozilla 1.2.1 Message-ID: <200301291455.h0TEtgrf000743@lulu.private.lan> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0301290032040.6869-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org> References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0301290032040.6869-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org>
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John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com> writes: > Hello All > > I've just installed a minimal 4.7 box with X, mwm and Mozilla 1.2.1 (which > is just plain mozilla in the ports, cvsup'd tongight). For some reason > there are very few fonts available in the preferences in Mozilla, and the > ones that are there look *awful*. I installed Netscape 4.8 and Opera and > the fonts are fine with them. > > Is something busted with native mozilla 1.2.1? Or am I missing something? > It takes a looooong time to build Mozilla on this box... > I'm just speculating, but the "awful" font appearance could be related to Xft. I build mozilla with the following option: # make WITHOUT_XFT=yes This greatly improves font appearance in mozilla (IMHO). There may be a way to fix this by tuning X, but then you have two problems :) Do post if you find a workaround other than recompiling with the above option. -- Robin Damm <robin@damm.ca> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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