Thanks for the recommendation. Just installed the packages along with libqt3-devel and libqt3 and they look great. Real improvement :-) I have only had a quick look though. I'll take a closer look later.
Cheers, Jord On Monday 04 Nov 2002 11:03 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: > Has anyone else tried out Texstars modified fonts for KDE yet? > They are absolutely wonderful !! I thought my fonts were good until I tried > this... > > Tex has recompiled libqt3 for Xft-2 which (I think) is what makes RedHat > 8.0's fonts so nice. Any KDE (or qt) application will have nice fonts. > > To get them all you have to do is install > libqt3, Xft-2.0, freetype2 and fontconfig from > http://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/linux/distri >butions/mandrake/9.0/rpms/ > > If you have imported Truetype fonts from Windows with drakfont add a path > to them in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf by inserting the line > > <dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont/Type1</dir> > > among the other font paths. > > Restart the X server and that is it! Beautiful clear truetype fonts. > > Problems you might get include : > Double spacing in konsole : Just select a different font to fix it. > Blocky fonts in kdm : Open kcontrol as root and select a different font for > kdm in System>Login Manager > > Disclaimer > ------------ > If you are not sure you can recover your system back to its previous state > in the event of a problem, then it is probably not a good idea to try this. > > Tex's forum thread is here > http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Forums&file=viewto >pic&topic=265&forum=7 > > derek -- Jordan Elver http://www.jordanelver.co.uk "File not found. Should I fake it? (Y/N)"
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