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Date:      Mon, 12 Aug 2002 11:26:13 +1200 (NZST)
From:      =?iso-8859-1?q?Graham=20Guttocks?= <graham_guttocks@yahoo.co.nz>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Blurry fonts with XFree86 4.2.0
Message-ID:  <20020811232613.79419.qmail@web10301.mail.yahoo.com>

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Greetings,

I've just installed FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE on a new workstation with XF86
4.2.0 from ports and was disappointed to find that some of the fonts
are not very crisp, but seem out of focus.

In particular, XEmacs chooses the following as it's default font:

"-*-Courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*"

This really looks horrid.

I'm wondering why as I've never had this problem before (with other
FreeBSD or Linux installs).

I've followed the "Using Fonts in XFree86" guide in the handbook and
installed the Type1 and TrueType fonts, but it doesn't help the
problem.

It seems like the Courier family being chosen by default is of poor
quality.  Anyone know how I can remedy this?

BTW, the answer is not to just configure XEmacs to use a different
font.  I don't want to have to do with with all my applications, but
would rather fix the root of the problem.

Thanks.


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Graham

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