On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 7:09 PM, Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> wrote: > Fluxbox is blowing up on my new machine because it can't find any > fixed fonts. I just realized that merely building xorg-server doesn't > download any fonts. Looking at /usr/portage/media-fonts I see a whole > bunch of options. Any experiences good/bad with any of them? Remember > that this will be on an 11.6" netbook, currently running 1024x768, and > hopefully 1366x768 one of these days. And the less processor power it > requires to render, the better. > > -- > Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org>
Font rendering, typically, takes so little processing it'll be the least of your worries if you find something being sluggish. I have dell mini 9 here with flux running beautifully on all 1024x600 I have to play with, and am using whatever gtk picked up as "Sans" in 8pt for all my gtk apps, .fluxbox/overlay set to override all fonts with sans-8, and just glancing at my installed fonts, I believe that's mapping to dejavu's sans serif font. All my installed fonts, at the moment, I have: media-fonts/corefonts media-fonts/dejavu media-fonts/font-cursor-misc media-fonts/font-misc-misc media-fonts/gnu-gs-fonts-std And those could be slimmed down a bit, really. I've run 6pt, here and there, but decided it best not to ruin my eyesight by staring at a glossy screen and deciphering that small of text (was still quite crisp, I'm still impressed by this display). -- Poison [BLX] Joshua M. Murphy
