I am not sure if this is the same issue but it certainly is a better solution....
http://opensuse-community.org/SubpixelHinting This will switch cleartype fonts back on and it works really well in firefox - I tried it yesterday and it works in 10.3. Regards, Pieter Budapest On 08/10/2007, Kníže Ignor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Firefox don't reflect any changes I make in antialiasing settings. Everyone > can make a little experiment. Close Firefox, go to Computer -> Control Center > -> Appearance -> Fonts and set rendering type to "Monochrome" (GNOME). System > immediately responds and change can be seen for example on the gnome panel. > Now start Firefox and you will see, that it still use old settings (fonts are > antialiased). In Ubuntu this behaves as expected, that means antiliasing is > disabled in Firefox. This is just an example, I don't want to disable > antialiasing in Firefox, I want to change the font rendering. But this > experiment shows us, that Firefox ignores the system settings. I compared > mozconfig in Ubuntu and OpenSUSE and there are few differences - in OpenSUSE > Firefox is build static. Can be this the reason for this behaviour? I tried > to rpmbuild static Firefox (removed lines 'ac_add_options --enable-static', > 'ac_add_options --disable-shared' and added lines 'ac_add_options > --enable-shared', > 'ac_add_options --disable-static' in the spec file), but the compilation is > failing: > > c++ -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions -Wall -Wconversion -Wpointer-arith > -Wcast-align -Woverloaded-virtual -Wsynth -Wno-ctor-dtor-privacy > -Wno-non-virtual-dtor -Wno-long-long -pedantic -O2 -g -fmessage-length=0 > -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Os -fno-strict-aliasing -fstack-protector -fshort-wchar > -pthread -pipe -DNDEBUG -DTRIMMED -O2 -g -fmessage-length=0 > -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Os -fno-strict-aliasing -fstack-protector -fPIC -shared > -Wl,-z,defs -Wl,-h,libgklayout.so -o libgklayout.so nsLayoutModule.o > nsContentHTTPStartup.o nsContentDLF.o nsLayoutStatics.o > -Wl,--whole-archive ../../dist/lib/libgkbase_s.a > ../../dist/lib/libgkgeneric_s.a ../../dist/lib/libgkforms_s.a > ../../dist/lib/libgkstyle_s.a ../../dist/lib/libgkprinting_s.a > ../../dist/lib/libgktable_s.a ../../dist/lib/libgkxulbase_s.a > ../../dist/lib/libgkconbase_s.a ../../dist/lib/libgkconcvs_s.a > ../../dist/lib/libgkconevents_s.a ../../dist/lib/libgkconhtmlcon_s.a > ../../dist/lib/libgkconhtmldoc_s.a ../../dist/lib/libgkconxmlcon_s.a .. > /../dist/lib/libgkconxmldoc_s.a ../../dist/lib/libgkconxbl_s.a > ../../dist/lib/libgkconxulcon_s.a ../../dist/lib/libgkconxuldoc_s.a > ../../dist/lib/libgkview_s.a ../../dist/lib/libjsdombase_s.a > ../../dist/lib/libjsdomevents_s.a ../../dist/lib/libjsurl_s.a > ../../dist/lib/libjsdomstorage_s.a ../../dist/lib/libgkxultree_s.a > ../../dist/lib/libgkxulgrid_s.a ../../dist/lib/libgkconxultmpl_s.a > ../../dist/lib/libinspector_s.a ../../dist/lib/libgkmathmlcon_s.a > ../../dist/lib/libgkmathmlbase_s.a ../../dist/lib/libgkcontentxtf_s.a > ../../dist/lib/libgkxtfbase_s.a ../../dist/lib/libgksvgbase_s.a > ../../dist/lib/libgkconsvgdoc_s.a ../../dist/lib/libgkcontentsvg_s.a > ../../dist/lib/libgksvgrenderercairo_s.a -Wl,--no-whole-archive > -L../../dist/bin -L../../dist/lib -lgkgfx ../../dist/lib/libunicharutil_s.a > -L../../dist/bin -lxpcom -lxpcom_core -L../../dist/bin -L/usr/lib64 -lplds4 > -lplc4 -lnspr4 -lpthread -ldl -L../../dist/bin -lmozjs -lgtk-x11-2.0 > -lgdk-x11-2.0 -latk-1.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2 > .0 -lpangocairo-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lcairo -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl > -lglib-2.0 -lcairo -Wl,--version-script > -Wl,../../build/unix/gnu-ld-scripts/components-version-script -Wl,-Bsymbolic > -ldl -lm > ../../dist/lib/libgkconcvs_s.a(nsCanvasRenderingContext2D.o): In function > `nsCanvasRenderingContext2D::Destroy()': > /home/ignor/rpm/BUILD/mozilla/content/canvas/src/nsCanvasRenderingContext2D.cpp:568: > undefined reference to `XFreePixmap' > ../../dist/lib/libgkconcvs_s.a(nsCanvasRenderingContext2D.o): In function > `nsCanvasRenderingContext2D::SetDimensions(int, int)': > /home/ignor/rpm/BUILD/mozilla/content/canvas/src/nsCanvasRenderingContext2D.cpp:814: > undefined reference to `XRenderFindStandardFormat' > /home/ignor/rpm/BUILD/mozilla/content/canvas/src/nsCanvasRenderingContext2D.cpp:817: > undefined reference to `XListPixmapFormats' > /home/ignor/rpm/BUILD/mozilla/content/canvas/src/nsCanvasRenderingContext2D.cpp:824: > undefined reference to `XFree' > /home/ignor/rpm/BUILD/mozilla/content/canvas/src/nsCanvasRenderingContext2D.cpp:829: > undefined reference to `XCreatePixmap' > > When I add "-lX11 -lXrender", then the command passes, but there are also > another problems, so the compilation fails later. I'm not as experienced to > fix it. > > So my question is what to do to force Firefox to respect the system settings > of antialiasing? I'm trying to solve this, because there are pages, where > fonts look really ugly to me - for example > http://www.abclinuxu.cz/images/screenshots/2/9/98392-nepublikovat--48272.png > compare this with screenshot taken in Ubuntu > (http://www.abclinuxu.cz/images/screenshots/2/9/98392-nepublikovat--48270.png). > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
