I forwarded this to my friend. IIRC this option wasn't in the version of KDE that came with MDK 9.1. Also, I'm puzzled as to why this problem would show up in GNOME.
Jim On Thursday 21 August 2003 07:27 am, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 18:02, James Conner wrote: > > I just installed MDK 9.1 on a friend's system and the fonts and icons > > have a shadow to the right. This is in KDM, KDE, and GNOME and possibly > > more. This was very noticiable right after install. I updated freetype2 > > from texstar's site and installed the msfonts from there as well as > > imported all the fonts from the Win2000 dual boot side(on another hard > > drive). > > The "shadow" is intended Texstar's rpms have an actual feature in them > that does shadow on the text for desktop text etc. in the kcontrol > center look and feel fonts you will find a check box for enable > shadows. Remove it and things should return to "normal" > > > I installed nvidia's > > latest drivers(with success). I've searched mandrakes mailing list > > archives, the forum, nvidia's forum, google and anything else I could > > think of. It makes it very hard to read anything and a real strain on > > the eyes. I'm unsure of what to do or look at next. This system had run > > MDK 9.0 before just fine. I did a screenshot with KSnapshot and it shows > > up fine on my computer. MDK 9.1 did detect the monitor and set the > > resolution at 1024x768 with 24 bit color on install. The monitor is a > > Dell(Samsung) 17", unsure of the model right now. I could get it if > > needed. Any ideas are appreciated. > > > > Jim -- 10:01am up 11 days, 18:12, 3 users, load average: 0.14, 0.22, 0.14 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Running Mandrake 9.0 - Linux - because life is too short for reboots...
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