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 SystemLogin 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=modloadname=Forumsfile=viewto
pictopic=265forum=7
derek
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