Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 20:58:12 -0400 (AST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> To: Thomas Dickey <dickey@radix.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xorg 7.4: "button" fonts unreadable ... Message-ID: <20090209205704.C90262@hub.org> In-Reply-To: <20090209234052.GA21597@saltmine.radix.net> References: <20090209191710.P90262@hub.org> <20090209234052.GA21597@saltmine.radix.net>
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So, if I backtrack to 7.3.x, I should be fine? On Mon, 9 Feb 2009, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 07:28:58PM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: >> >> Have searched Google, but haven't been able to find anything that either >> worked, or was relevant ... I just cleaned out and reinstalled all of my >> ports ... when I load up an xterm (the one I'm working in right now), all >> the text in it is fine and readable ... but, the top of the xterm, where >> it has the 'xterm icon' and some writing to the right of it, the writing >> is unreadable ... > > Basically, the xorg hackers decided to improve your user experience by > lobotomizing the fonts - I modified xterm to recover from that by falling > back to "fixed" (I'm unsure why they left that intact). > > However, window titles are owned by your window manager. > >> If I load up firefox3, the web pages are viewable and readable, but stuff >> like the location bar are unreadable (I have to hope I type without making >> a mistake) ... >> >> I'm not sure what to look at ... have checked the output from starting X, >> and not seeing anything font related ... > > Best advice is to locate the "misc" fonts (or whatever it's called in > FreeBSD) and install those. That'll work until the next improvement to > the X server's font handling. > > -- > Thomas E. Dickey > http://invisible-island.net > ftp://invisible-island.net > ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664
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