From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 29 18:42: 3 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 3378337B401 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 18:42:02 -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 8B09F43F93 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 18:42:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from syborg@stny.rr.com) Received: by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix, from userid 507) id 6446D4FA76; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 21:19:59 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EF164A0F; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 21:19:59 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 21:19:59 -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: > 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. > I was unable to find a solution - however, your method above worked like a charm. Thanks for the hint! Normally I've never had to do this. Perhaps it changed with the new mozilla build? 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