From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Mar 18 11: 5: 1 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A364337B405 for ; Tue, 18 Mar 2003 11:04:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from maul.immure.com (ns.immure.com [207.8.42.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9FAA43F3F for ; Tue, 18 Mar 2003 11:04:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bob@immure.com) Received: (from root@localhost) by maul.immure.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) id h2IJ4tix060040; Tue, 18 Mar 2003 13:04:55 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from bob@immure.com) Received: from luke.immure.com (luke.vieo.com [10.1.132.3]) by maul.immure.com (8.12.6/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h2IJ4tId059981; Tue, 18 Mar 2003 13:04:55 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from bob@immure.com) Received: (from root@localhost) by luke.immure.com (8.12.8/8.12.3) id h2IJ4tCx073942; Tue, 18 Mar 2003 13:04:55 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from bob@luke.immure.com) Received: from luke.immure.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by luke.immure.com (8.12.8/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h2IJ4sbb073917; Tue, 18 Mar 2003 13:04:54 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from bob@luke.immure.com) Received: (from bob@localhost) by luke.immure.com (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id h2IJ4sZ5073916; Tue, 18 Mar 2003 13:04:54 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 13:04:54 -0600 From: Bob Willcox To: Joe Marcus Clarke Cc: Jason Andresen , Kenneth W Cochran , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XFree 4.3.0 / Xft font problems Message-ID: <20030318190454.GA73060@luke.immure.com> Reply-To: Bob Willcox References: <200303181439.JAA5706913@shell.TheWorld.com> <3E773AF0.6010803@mitre.org> <20030318185139.GA70817@luke.immure.com> <1048014109.348.89.camel@dhcp-528-2140> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1048014109.348.89.camel@dhcp-528-2140> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i X-scanner: scanned by Inflex 1.0.12.3 on luke.immure.com X-scanner: scanned by Inflex 1.0.12.3 on maul.immure.com Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message