On Saturday 17 November 2001 08:22 pm, John McNulty wrote:
I discovered recently, after enabling XFree86 4.0.3 on SuSE 7.2 that enabling antialiasing only works at all if you have installed some TTF fonts on the system, for which I used the Font Installer. At first I didn't do this and had a KDE session running with /no text/ at all because KDE couldn't find any fonts !!!
I now have a second problem, one of my own making. I loaded 1,316 TTF fonts onto the system. It now takes 30 secs -> 1min to login, start any
Use /usr/X11R6/bin/fetchmsttfonts to load fonts from MS on the internet that are the same fonts used by most websites (such as Times New Roman and Arial) and other programs expect. I have a problem in speed in initializing KDE, not in running programs. It usually waits during the last step, the part when it's supposed to be restoring the previous desktop; it freezes at 50% for a while before finally starting up KDE. Programs seem to start reasonably well, I'm running SuSE 7.2 on a Pentium 4 1.7GHZ with 512 megs RAM. However, I bet it's tough on a slower machine. I've heard that 7.3 is faster, though to use antialiasing one has to perform a fix on it reportedly. Of course, if the problem (not yours - I'm speaking to the list) is really a very slow system, try black box or fvwm2. (Black Box seems to look actually pretty, at least in it's default setup.) perhaps choosing another window manager, such as