Hello, after some discussion with myself about installing or not version 10.1, I couldn't resist and finally installed it, now I have some questions that perhaps someone can answer. My first problem are the fonts, they are just horrible... how can I set the fonts as they were in suse 10? I tried editing the .fonts.conf and adding the "autohint"-thing as someone pointed out, but it didn't show any results. I downloaded the m$ fonts with the script but it doesn't have any effect either... do I have to set the fonts per hand form the kde control center? Second problem: Software updater: It is ugly and doesn't work. Is there a way to go back to the nice susewatcher? I see that mono-stuff was added into yast, or sort of. Can I delete the whole mono-thing and downgrade the current alpha-version yast module for package-management to the old, stable and qt-centric one? Any hints are appreciated. Regards, Alvaro.
Hi Alvaro, My preferred way to install fonts is from KDE: Personal Settings | System Administration | Font Installer. Adjust your fonts size, type and anti-aliasing from Personal Settings | Appearance and Themes | Fonts. And **very** important, **do** check your screen X/Y sizes in your xorg.conf file. Take a ruler, measure your screen (X and Y axes in mm), start sax2, edit your monitor properties and put your measured values in there. Save, **test**, open sax2 and check again that the values were kept (pay attention to the "ratio" value too). Finally restart X (CTRL + ALT + BACKSPACE). Having the right values in there can make a **huge** difference. Trust me. As regarding font appearances, I found "MS Outlook Reference Sans Serif" to be the best looking sans serif font out there when used as a screen font (well, tastes may differ). I think you will need an XP workstation with Office 2003 on it to grab that font from (my laptop @ work has that combination) but well worth the effort.
Second problem: Software updater: It is ugly and doesn't work. Is there a way to go back to the nice susewatcher?
Don't know about that.
I see that mono-stuff was added into yast, or sort of. Can I delete the whole mono-thing and downgrade the current alpha-version yast module for package-management to the old, stable and qt-centric one?
Don't know this either but I really doubt you could. We are all on
the same boat. Meanwhile use the Online Update from Yast.
Hope this helps.
Florin
--- Alvaro Aguilera
Hello,
after some discussion with myself about installing or not version 10.1, I couldn't resist and finally installed it, now I have some questions that perhaps someone can answer.
My first problem are the fonts, they are just horrible... how can I set the fonts as they were in suse 10? I tried editing the .fonts.conf and adding the "autohint"-thing as someone pointed out, but it didn't show any results. I downloaded the m$ fonts with the script but it doesn't have any effect either... do I have to set the fonts per hand form the kde control center?
Second problem: Software updater: It is ugly and doesn't work. Is there a way to go back to the nice susewatcher? I see that mono-stuff was added into yast, or sort of. Can I delete the whole mono-thing and downgrade the current alpha-version yast module for package-management to the old, stable and qt-centric one?
Any hints are appreciated.
Regards, Alvaro.
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