On 9/20/07, Alexander E. Patrakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Please don't do this - it is a workaround. Xft fonts are beautiful by
default, but something went wrong on your system. You may also want to
start from scratch, using LFS-6.3 and BLFS SVN, because they contain a
lot of fixes as
Martin McCourt wrote:
I rebuilt xorg-server, the freetype module appears to be there, but my
fonts still look like junk. I'm going to try and compile Qt and KDE
and see if compiling without Xft works, as I recall this solved this
problem in the past.
Please don't do this - it is a
On 9/16/07, Alexander E. Patrakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Which version of fontconfig? And please tar up /etc/fonts again. Also
check if merely removing /etc/fonts/conf.d improves the situation.
Noticed something interesting in my xorg logs:
(EE) Failed to load module freetype (module does not
On 9/17/07, Martin McCourt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 9/16/07, Alexander E. Patrakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Which version of fontconfig? And please tar up /etc/fonts again. Also
check if merely removing /etc/fonts/conf.d improves the situation.
Noticed something interesting in my xorg
Martin McCourt wrote:
Noticed something interesting in my xorg logs:
(EE) Failed to load module freetype (module does not exist, 0)
This means that old applications that use the X core font protocol
(instead of xft) will not be able to use TrueType fonts). This should
not affect Qt or GTK,
http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/6733/morebadfontsea8.jpg
I can't tell you how to fix this, but I can contribute an observation that
those bad looking characters are just what it looks like if you take an image
of text and reduce it's size by a 2/3 ratio. It produces a pathological case
of
On 9/16/07, Alexander E. Patrakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 9/15/07, Alexander E. Patrakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What a mess! You have only conf.d directory, but no conf.avail, and you
have disabled both antialiasing and hinting. Erase the whole directory
and reinstall fontconfig with its
Martin McCourt wrote:
Hmm... fontconfig didn't seem to install anything resembling
conf.avail when I ran make install, nor does it seem to be
mentioned in the book. What did I miss?
Which version of fontconfig? And please tar up /etc/fonts again. Also
check if merely removing
Martin McCourt wrote:
Hmm... fontconfig didn't seem to install anything resembling
conf.avail when I ran make install, nor does it seem to be
mentioned in the book. What did I miss?
Which version of fontconfig? And please tar up /etc/fonts again. Also
check if merely removing
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From: Alexander E. Patrakov [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: blfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:05:51 +0600
Subject: Re: Fonts look bad in X.org
I did my suggestion without actually looking at your screenshots. The
problem is that your
Martin McCourt wrote:
The font in the Xterm seems to look just fine (am I wrong?), but the
fonts in the browser are just heart-breaking.
You are comparing apples and oranges. xterm in your configuration seems
to be using a bitmap font via X core font protocol. This is a valid
configuration,
On 9/15/07, Alexander E. Patrakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Martin McCourt wrote:
The font in the Xterm seems to look just fine (am I wrong?), but the
fonts in the browser are just heart-breaking.
Wow, those fonts look bad :)
You are comparing apples and oranges. xterm in your configuration
Hi Alexander,
On 9/15/07, Alexander E. Patrakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You are comparing apples and oranges. xterm in your configuration seems
to be using a bitmap font via X core font protocol. This is a valid
configuration, although the book configures it to use a TrueType font
via XFT
Martin McCourt wrote:
Here's another screenshot:
http://img206.imageshack.us/my.php?image=badfontev3.jpg
Cheers,
MM
The only way i can make my fonts look that bad is by turning off both
hinting _AND_ anti-aliasing.
The first response to this query mentioned Freetype's native bytecode
I remember some issues with Nvidia cards and old Nvidia drivers. So
updating nvidia drivers might also help.
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From: Peter B. Steiger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 11:51:25 -0600
What about other images - do JPG or GIF images seem compressed or fuzzy,
or is it just the fonts? What about xfontsel, which should go straight
through X without regard to whether you're using kde or xfce?
I
Martin McCourt wrote:
I followed the advisories of Alexander and Ken, and things are more
legible because they appear larger, but are still really ugly. Would
it be helpful if I could provide screen shots of a terminal (rendering
nicely), my desktop widgets/browser (horrible), and a jpg/gif
Martin McCourt wrote:
I followed the advisories of Alexander and Ken
I did my suggestion without actually looking at your screenshots. The
problem is that your fontconfig uses bitmap fonts (or toolkits use core
X fonts instead of those provided by fontconfig) instead of nice
TrueType
Hi all,
I have this problem where all my fonts look really small and actually
are pretty hard to look at. See this:
http://img528.imageshack.us/my.php?image=badaavg8.jpg
I had this problem before using KDE, and I remember fixing it (I
think) by compiling QT without Xft support (am I wrong?).
On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 01:10:44PM -0400, Martin McCourt wrote:
Hi all,
I have this problem where all my fonts look really small and actually
are pretty hard to look at. See this:
http://img528.imageshack.us/my.php?image=badaavg8.jpg
Possibly a red herring (and nothing to do with
Ken Moffat wrote:
On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 01:10:44PM -0400, Martin McCourt wrote:
Hi all,
I have this problem where all my fonts look really small and actually
are pretty hard to look at. See this:
http://img528.imageshack.us/my.php?image=badaavg8.jpg
Possibly a red herring (and nothing
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