Date: 18 Mar 2003 14:01:49 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com> Cc: Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org>, Kenneth W Cochran <kwc@theworld.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree 4.3.0 / Xft font problems Message-ID: <1048014109.348.89.camel@dhcp-528-2140> In-Reply-To: <20030318185139.GA70817@luke.immure.com> References: <200303181439.JAA5706913@shell.TheWorld.com> <3E773AF0.6010803@mitre.org> <20030318185139.GA70817@luke.immure.com>
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--=-/YclkXQbwxNEmxGGHQu4 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 13:51, Bob Willcox wrote: > On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 10:27:44AM -0500, Jason Andresen wrote: > > Kenneth W Cochran wrote: > > > > > >"Regular" xchat 1.8.11 and gaim 0.59.9 look fine. > > >Mozilla built without Xft (-DWITHOUT_XFT) looks ok (menu bar > > >looks good, as with other apps) but not great (displayed > > >text looks "ok" but not very good). > >=20 > > Mozilla uses whatever you have configured in the preferences panel as=20 > > the font for the menubar IIRC. Try changing your font from serif to=20 > > sans-serif. > >=20 > > Additionally, you're probably having trouble with the antialiased small= =20 > > text. You might want to try creating a /usr/X11R6/etc/fonts/local.conf > > file with the following lines: > >=20 > > <!-- Fontconfig local overrides --> > >=20 > > <match target=3D"pattern"> > > <test qual=3D"any" name=3D"size" compare=3D"less_eq"> > > <double>12</double> > > </test> > > <edit name=3D"antialias" mode=3D"assign"> > > <bool>false</bool> > > </edit> > > </match> > >=20 > > And see if that's any easier on your eyes. >=20 > This didn't make any difference for me. My menu fonts are still way too > small, to the point of being unreadable. Note that I tried putting this > in both the local.conf file mentioned above as well as a ~/.fonts.conf > file. >=20 > This is on a 4-stable system from just over a month ago running XFree86 > 4.2.0. >=20 > What else am I missing? What font ports/packages do you have installed? Joe >=20 > Thanks, > Bob --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-/YclkXQbwxNEmxGGHQu4 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+d20db2iPiv4Uz4cRAsrDAJ43qRCyBljkbih1GGmhyxpzgjMkAwCfTnJw i/kg7FIKrBCNGMhQWaCHFLk= =GgZe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-/YclkXQbwxNEmxGGHQu4-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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