From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 29 11: 9:59 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 EBECD37B401 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 11:09:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (bgm-24-94-58-56.stny.rr.com [24.94.58.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01ACC43F75 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 11:09:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from syborg@stny.rr.com) Received: by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix, from userid 507) id 350664FA76; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 13:48:04 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FC0A4A0F; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 13:48:04 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 13:48:04 -0500 (EST) From: John Bleichert X-X-Sender: syborg@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org Reply-To: John Bleichert To: Robin Damm Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: odd lack of fonts in Mozilla 1.2.1 In-Reply-To: <200301291455.h0TEtgrf000743@lulu.private.lan> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Robin Damm wrote: > Subject: Re: odd lack of fonts in Mozilla 1.2.1 > > 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 > ok - thanks for the suggestion. I'm building world on that box right now. It's an old one, it will be done this afternoon. Then I'll try and rebuild Mozilla and try your suggestion. JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message