From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 29 6:55:10 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E51137B401 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 06:55:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from pd5mo1so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36C1443FB1 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 06:55:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robin@damm.ca) Received: from pd3mr2so.prod.shaw.ca (pd3mr2so-ser.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.178]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 12 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H9H00F9UDFUIM@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 07:55:06 -0700 (MST) Received: from pn2ml9so.prod.shaw.ca (pn2ml9so-qfe0.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.121.7]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 12 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H9H00D0BDFU25@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 07:55:06 -0700 (MST) Received: from lulu.private.lan (h24-82-238-48.wp.shawcable.net [24.82.238.48]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 12 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H9H005HQDFTC8@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 07:55:06 -0700 (MST) Received: from lulu.private.lan (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lulu.private.lan (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0TEthL9000746; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 08:55:43 -0600 (CST envelope-from robin@damm.ca) Received: (from robin@localhost) by lulu.private.lan (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h0TEtgrf000743; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 08:55:42 -0600 (CST envelope-from robin@damm.ca) Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 08:55:42 -0600 From: Robin Damm Subject: Re: odd lack of fonts in Mozilla 1.2.1 In-reply-to: To: John Bleichert Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <200301291455.h0TEtgrf000743@lulu.private.lan> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Lines: 27 References: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Bleichert 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message