Terje J. Hanssen wrote:

I wonder why installed applications on my Suse 9.1Pro sometimes get thin and grainy, ugly fonts? The original included Mozilla 1.6 had nice font rendering. But when I installed the newer, general mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-1.7.3-full-installer.tar.gz in /opt, both Mozilla 1.7.3 Navigator and Mail client got ugly, thin and grainy fonts.

I read in Suse 9.1 admin manual that most applications use the newer Xft font system.

Your 1.6 is xft, but you downloaded and installed non-xft 1.7.3.

Therefore I wonder if I need to do any special configuration or setup for each application e.g Mozilla before they can use Xft? And/or do each application's fonts directory need to be added in the Xft's config file /etc/fonts/fonts.conf, e.g /opt/mozilla/lib/res/fonts, and afterwards execute it with the command "SuSEconfig --module fonts"?

Now I have installed Firefox 1.0 from rpm and web pages get nice fonts as they should.

The Firefox rpm is an xft build. I doubt anyone builds any Firefox for public download without xft enabled.

Are there corresponding font undertaking that needs to be done when building new rpms?

No.

Any suggestions?

Read "Choosing Your Mozilla" on http://www.mozilla.org/unix/dpi.html The Mozilla build you'll be installing to replace the 1.7.3 you downloaded is in http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.7.5/contrib... but there is no installer version. Simply untar the plain tar.gz version to your choice of location, then if you want, create whatever desktop and/or menu shortcut you like to open it. -- "The message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved, it is the power of God." 1 Corinthians 1:18 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/