From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Mar 19 23:22:27 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 60C9C37B404 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 23:22:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from meitner.wh.uni-dortmund.de (meitner.wh.Uni-Dortmund.DE [129.217.129.133]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70A8943F93 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 23:22:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from michaelnottebrock@gmx.net) Received: from lofi.dyndns.org (pc2-105.intern.meitner [10.3.12.105]) by meitner (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C1C7167588; Tue, 18 Mar 2003 20:03:05 +0100 (CET) Received: from kiste.my.domain (kiste.my.domain [192.168.8.4]) (authenticated bits=0) by lofi.dyndns.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h2IK45To004186 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO); Tue, 18 Mar 2003 21:04:05 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from michaelnottebrock@gmx.net) From: Michael Nottebrock To: Jason Andresen Subject: Re: XFree 4.3.0 / Xft font problems Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 21:04:04 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <200303181439.JAA5706913@shell.TheWorld.com> <3E773AF0.6010803@mitre.org> In-Reply-To: <3E773AF0.6010803@mitre.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-UID: 1032 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Boundary-02=_0u3d+NJyDdCE0cQ"; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200303182104.04998.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new 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 --Boundary-02=_0u3d+NJyDdCE0cQ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: signed data Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday 18 March 2003 16:27, 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). > > Mozilla uses whatever you have configured in the preferences panel as > the font for the menubar IIRC. Try changing your font from serif to > sans-serif. > > Additionally, you're probably having trouble with the antialiased small > text. You might want to try creating a /usr/X11R6/etc/fonts/local.conf > file with the following lines: > > > > > On a related note: I have observed that "pixelsize" matches better than=20 "size". I use a similar .fonts.conf (and before that, I used a similar=20 =2Exftconfig with the old syntax) to turn off antialiasing for a specific=20 size-range, and when I use "size", seemingly random fonts in random=20 applications are not matched (in some applications, for instance kmail, the= =20 same font at the same size is rendered antialiased in one widget, and=20 unantialiased in another!). =2D-=20 Regards, Michael Nottebrock --Boundary-02=_0u3d+NJyDdCE0cQ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA+d3u0Xhc68WspdLARAt/cAJ9xGiR/iYlPfEuiHJHvuRG3TL2dbQCeMHBg fYGFc9ujEVzAy24h1dlnbL0= =gDEF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_0u3d+NJyDdCE0cQ-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message