Re: [SLE] Ugly Fonts, thin and grainy - why?
From: Felix Miata (mrmazda_at_ij.net)
Date: 01/01/05
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Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2005 17:21:32 -0500 To: suse-linux-e@suse.com
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.
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