From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 22 13:56:47 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@www.freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@www.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D92016A422; Mon, 22 Aug 2005 13:56:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C48943D55; Mon, 22 Aug 2005 13:56:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7MDujcu024070 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 22 Aug 2005 09:56:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.12.9p2/8.12.9/Submit) id j7MDudjr031037; Mon, 22 Aug 2005 09:56:39 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17161.55703.734118.584359@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 09:56:39 -0400 (EDT) To: pav@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <1124717191.75167.48.camel@pav.hide.vol.cz> References: <17161.51084.456346.976929@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <1124715244.75167.40.camel@pav.hide.vol.cz> <17161.53691.614602.758290@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <1124717191.75167.48.camel@pav.hide.vol.cz> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Cc: freebsd-current@www.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Beta2: Nice job! X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 13:56:47 -0000 pav@FreeBSD writes: > Andrew Gallatin p=ED=B9e v po 22. 08. 2005 v 09:23 -0400: > > > > Try native mozilla/firefox, you will be pleasantly surprised with the > > > slicky smoothness of fonts delivered by freetype and libXft. > >=20 > > I'm sorry, I should have mentioned: Native versins of firefox and > > other gnomish things (thunderbird) look just as blurry. Xfce menus > > and title bars look bad, etc. The only fonts which look decent > > are the 15-year old X11 fonts that xterm and xemacs use. > > Ah, so the deal is that you actually don't like the antialiasing > smoothness we all love. Hmm. Maybe it is something wrong with my eyes? The odd thing is that when I hook my powerbook to my 1600x1200 lcd, somehow MacOSX makes fonts look decent. They are still blurry, but not nearly so bad. > www/mozilla port have "Enable Xft font anti-aliasing" option, you could > try to toggle this off and try it. Aha! setenv GDK_USE_XFT 0 will do the same thing at runtime.. This seems to improve things quite a bit. But I just don't see how other people can stand the defaults with lcd monitors. Drew