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] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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