Date: 29 Jan 2003 21:51:08 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com> Cc: Robin Damm <robin@damm.ca>, FreeBSD User Questions List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: odd lack of fonts in Mozilla 1.2.1 Message-ID: <1043895068.67424.98.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0301292118140.7559-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org> References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0301292118140.7559-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org>
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--=-suRBqnV+kxHKa8XGctI7 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 21:19, John Bleichert wrote: > On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Robin Damm wrote: > > John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com> writes: > >=20 > > > Hello All > > >=20 > > > I've just installed a minimal 4.7 box with X, mwm and Mozilla 1.2.1 (= which=20 > > > is just plain mozilla in the ports, cvsup'd tongight). For some reaso= n=20 > > > there are very few fonts available in the preferences in Mozilla, and= the=20 > > > ones that are there look *awful*. I installed Netscape 4.8 and Opera = and=20 > > > the fonts are fine with them. > > >=20 > > > Is something busted with native mozilla 1.2.1? Or am I missing someth= ing?=20 > > > It takes a looooong time to build Mozilla on this box... > > >=20 > >=20 > > I'm just speculating, but the "awful" font appearance could be related > > to Xft. I build mozilla with the following option: > >=20 > > # make WITHOUT_XFT=3Dyes > >=20 > > 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 :) > >=20 > > Do post if you find a workaround other than recompiling with the > > above option. > >=20 >=20 > I was unable to find a solution - however, your method above worked like = a=20 > charm. Thanks for the hint! Normally I've never had to do this. Perhaps i= t=20 > changed with the new mozilla build? The new Mozilla supports Xft for anti-aliasing of fonts. This is enabled by default as this seems to be a desired feature. Moving forward, you should keep WITHOUT_XFT defined in /etc/make.conf if you're having problems. Joe >=20 > JB >=20 > # John Bleichert=20 > # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg >=20 >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-suRBqnV+kxHKa8XGctI7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA+OJMcb2iPiv4Uz4cRAl9CAJ0SCIZ0JLLxwxTJg2z2Sl0MGZB3/gCcDZP5 oAT3AGtqq3n9X0RRWZ3giZc= =v1P/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-suRBqnV+kxHKa8XGctI7-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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