Re: [SLE] 7.3 anti-aliased fonts weirdness
Is it a fresh 7.3 install, or an upgrade? I had this problem on 7.2 and then discovered that the /etc/XF86Config I was using, that I had carefully preserved across multiple upgrades, no longer contained a font list that matched what I had on the system. I saved it, and then used sax (sax2 if you're using XFree86 4.x) to generate a new XF86Config. I wasn't totally happy with the new one and ended up creating a hybrid of the two, but once I had all the fonts declared properly all my unreadable fonts suddenly became readable again :-) John On Tuesday 30 October 2001 2:45 pm, you wrote:
I agree. Just installed 7.3 and the fonts are unreadable in many apps such as the xterm. I've tried antialiasing on and off, it doesn't make a difference. Whats up with this and how do you fix it?
Chris Geske LIMS Manager Northern Lake Service, Inc. email: lims@newnorth.net phone: 715-478-2777
-----Original Message----- From: dids [mailto:richard@diddyland.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 4:54 AM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] 7.3 anti-aliased fonts weirdness
Nope Ive been using Tahoma for a long time now. Its not just tahoma that is funny, its most of them. If you try turning of Anti-Aliasing on fonts below a certain point site ( Xftconfg ) you get even worse results. Ive done the fetchmsttfonts thing just to be certain.
There is something weird with the font setup. believe me.
dids
On Monday 29 October 2001 17:53, you wrote:
Im getting really weird looking fonts with 7.3 and anti-aliased turned on, tahoma looks v unpleasant
dids
Tahoma is a Microsoft font, so I suspect it will always look "ragged" whether aliased or not 'cos it simply isn't available by default. Fwiw, I do actually want to see web pages in all their glory(?) - via mozilla, so
I
followed the procedure described in the SuSE 7.2 reference manual under
the
heading: Inserting Additional (True Type) Fonts. If things haven't changed that much in 7.3 - it should do the trick for you... ;-)
Chris
It was a fresh 7.3 install. Chris Geske LIMS Manager Northern Lake Service, Inc. email: lims@newnorth.net phone: 715-478-2777 -----Original Message----- From: John McNulty (by way of John McNulty <john@jmtl.com>) [mailto:john@jmtl.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 9:50 AM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] 7.3 anti-aliased fonts weirdness Is it a fresh 7.3 install, or an upgrade? I had this problem on 7.2 and then discovered that the /etc/XF86Config I was using, that I had carefully preserved across multiple upgrades, no longer contained a font list that matched what I had on the system. I saved it, and then used sax (sax2 if you're using XFree86 4.x) to generate a new XF86Config. I wasn't totally happy with the new one and ended up creating a hybrid of the two, but once I had all the fonts declared properly all my unreadable fonts suddenly became readable again :-) John On Tuesday 30 October 2001 2:45 pm, you wrote:
I agree. Just installed 7.3 and the fonts are unreadable in many apps such as the xterm. I've tried antialiasing on and off, it doesn't make a difference. Whats up with this and how do you fix it?
Chris Geske LIMS Manager Northern Lake Service, Inc. email: lims@newnorth.net phone: 715-478-2777
-----Original Message----- From: dids [mailto:richard@diddyland.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 4:54 AM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] 7.3 anti-aliased fonts weirdness
Nope Ive been using Tahoma for a long time now. Its not just tahoma that is funny, its most of them. If you try turning of Anti-Aliasing on fonts below a certain point site ( Xftconfg ) you get even worse results. Ive done the fetchmsttfonts thing just to be certain.
There is something weird with the font setup. believe me.
dids
On Monday 29 October 2001 17:53, you wrote:
Im getting really weird looking fonts with 7.3 and anti-aliased turned on, tahoma looks v unpleasant
dids
Tahoma is a Microsoft font, so I suspect it will always look "ragged" whether aliased or not 'cos it simply isn't available by default. Fwiw, I do actually want to see web pages in all their glory(?) - via mozilla, so
I
followed the procedure described in the SuSE 7.2 reference manual under
the
heading: Inserting Additional (True Type) Fonts. If things haven't changed that much in 7.3 - it should do the trick for you... ;-)
Chris
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