Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 12:51:39 -0600 From: Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com> To: Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org> Cc: Kenneth W Cochran <kwc@theworld.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XFree 4.3.0 / Xft font problems Message-ID: <20030318185139.GA70817@luke.immure.com> In-Reply-To: <3E773AF0.6010803@mitre.org> References: <200303181439.JAA5706913@shell.TheWorld.com> <3E773AF0.6010803@mitre.org>
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On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 10:27:44AM -0500, 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: > > <!-- Fontconfig local overrides --> > > <match target="pattern"> > <test qual="any" name="size" compare="less_eq"> > <double>12</double> > </test> > <edit name="antialias" mode="assign"> > <bool>false</bool> > </edit> > </match> > > 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? Thanks, Bob -- 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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