From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 14 20:18:29 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3314106566B for ; Sat, 14 Jan 2012 20:18:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from akshay.sreeramoju@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ww0-f50.google.com (mail-ww0-f50.google.com [74.125.82.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5926A8FC08 for ; Sat, 14 Jan 2012 20:18:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wgbgn7 with SMTP id gn7so699327wgb.31 for ; Sat, 14 Jan 2012 12:18:28 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=by4Q/xYanQoruMzX5/0ljJyePURb1ScjMq8N3C0Kuzc=; b=HE80CdnbjDZLBmioBoWjCYXr5o2zBW6sQvYw0J3W2lWWC/Pklf1bC9mttMorGBBeGQ 0xFTbyLDgQhst1oTZTEnrpk3S+CMf2LRRvaRcXas12UIZuHNN05SNXWGNlXYJaBnpMPI /BUpDOt+OBSZVSbhle1H2Dr16xRGdLe104FkA= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.180.84.163 with SMTP id a3mr12557500wiz.3.1326572308034; Sat, 14 Jan 2012 12:18:28 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.223.160.66 with HTTP; Sat, 14 Jan 2012 12:18:27 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 12:18:27 -0800 Message-ID: From: akshay sreeramoju To: Chuck Swiger Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: FreeBSD - Subject: Re: 3.6.13 firefox fonts are blurred on my 8.2 freebsd X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 20:18:29 -0000 hi chuck, thanks for the tip that fixed it. http://tinypic.com/r/rlcdjd/5 i was launching my vnc server with depth 8 "/usr/local/bin/vncserver :1 -depth 8 -geometry 1340x650",I changed that to "/usr/local/bin/vncserver :1 -depth 24 -geometry 1340x650". Best Regards Akshay On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Hi-- > > On Jan 12, 2012, at 11:38 AM, akshay sreeramoju wrote: > > The image shows, (not sure how bad it is showing for you), more or less > the > > display I get from firefox and emacs. I will try to send a more detailed > > image tonight. > > You appear to be running in an 8 or 16-bit color mode; what does > "xdpyinfo" say? > Most likely, you want to run in 24/32-bit color mode instead, to avoid > apps grabbing a limited palette of colors.... > > Regards, > -- > -Chuck > >