Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 14:10:29 -0500 From: Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org> To: Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com> Cc: Kenneth W Cochran <kwc@theworld.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XFree 4.3.0 / Xft font problems Message-ID: <3E776F25.6020509@mitre.org> In-Reply-To: <20030318185139.GA70817@luke.immure.com> References: <200303181439.JAA5706913@shell.TheWorld.com> <3E773AF0.6010803@mitre.org> <20030318185139.GA70817@luke.immure.com>
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Bob Willcox wrote:
> 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?
Oh! It's too small. Why didn't you say so.
You can change the font size in your
.mozilla/<username>/<randomstring>/chrome/userChrome.css
Specifically, you can add:
window
{
font-size: 12pt !important;
font-family: helvetica !important;
}
More information is on: http://www.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html
Unfortunatly I'm away from my FreeBSD machine, so I can't verify that
this works as advertised, but hopefully I've pointed you in the right
direction.
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