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Date:      Sun, 6 May 2007 17:08:57 +0200
From:      "Victor Engmark" <victor.engmark@gmail.com>
To:        "Jan Zach" <zach@centrum.cz>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: font problems in firefox, thunderbird,.. gtk?
Message-ID:  <7d4f41f50705060808v72f5c99bvbc16acf525aab93d@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200705061640.5624@centrum.cz>
References:  <200705061640.5624@centrum.cz>

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On 5/6/07, Jan Zach <zach@centrum.cz> wrote:
>
> after system and ports upgrade I have problems with fonts in some apps -
> firefox, thunderbird, gthumb, liferea and so on. It is probably related to
> the underlying toolkit - gtk2?
> The problem is that sometimes (not regularly) the app system fonts are not
> that expected ones but they are proportional and blurred - almost
> unreadable. Usually it helps to restart the app, sometimes more than once. I
> was searching the Internet, experimenting with xorg.conf and installed
> fonts, font cache etc. but got no results. With my previous installation I
> have had similar problems but really seldom not on regular basis as now.


Have you used the handbook section regarding
fonts<http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-fonts.html>,
especially the part regarding editing /usr/X11R6/etc/fonts/local.conf? For
the most part it works. If you have, could you post a (small) screenshot
with an example?

-- 
Victor Engmark
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur - What is said in Latin, sounds
profound



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