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Date:      Tue, 18 Mar 2003 13:04:54 -0600
From:      Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com>
To:        Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.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:  <20030318190454.GA73060@luke.immure.com>
In-Reply-To: <1048014109.348.89.camel@dhcp-528-2140>
References:  <200303181439.JAA5706913@shell.TheWorld.com> <3E773AF0.6010803@mitre.org> <20030318185139.GA70817@luke.immure.com> <1048014109.348.89.camel@dhcp-528-2140>

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On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 02:01:49PM -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 13:51, Bob Willcox wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 10:27:44AM -0500, Jason Andresen wrote:

[snip]

> > > And see if that's any easier on your eyes.
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> > This is on a 4-stable system from just over a month ago running XFree86
> > 4.2.0.
> > 
> > What else am I missing?
> 
> What font ports/packages do you have installed?

Here's what pkg_info tells me:

bob@boba:r1 /usr/X11R6/etc/fonts> pkg_info|grep -i font
XFree86-FontServer-4.2.0_1 XFree86-4 Font Server
XFree86-font100dpi-4.2.0 XFree86-4 bitmap 100 dpi fonts
XFree86-font75dpi-4.2.0 XFree86-4 bitmap 75 dpi fonts
XFree86-fontCyrillic-4.2.0_4 XFree86-4 Cyrillic Fonts
XFree86-fontDefaultBitmaps-4.2.0 XFree86-4 default bitmap fonts
XFree86-fontEncodings-4.2.0 XFree86-4 font encoding files
XFree86-fontScalable-4.2.0 XFree86-4 Scalable font files
Xft-2.1             A client-sided font API for X applications
Xft-2.1_3           A client-sided font API for X applications
bitstream-vera-1.0_2 Bitstream Vera collection of 10 TrueType fonts
fnlib-0.5           Fonts and font libraries necessary for Enlightenment
fontconfig-2.1_2    An XML-based font configuration API for X Windows
freetype-1.3.1_2    A free and portable TrueType font rendering engine
freetype2-2.1.3_1   A free and portable TrueType font rendering engine
tkfont-1.1_1        A Tk based replacement for xfontsel
urwfonts-1.0        Another font package for X

> 
> Joe
> 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Bob
> -- 
> PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc
> 
> 



-- 
Bob Willcox            We seem to have forgotten the simple truth that
bob@vieo.com           reason is never perfect. Only non-sense attains
Austin, TX             perfection.      -- Poul Henningsen [1894-1967]

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