Re: Why Are Some Fonts So Bad ?

2004-01-04 Thread Nick Boyce
On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 00:37:39 -0500, Jonathan Nelson wrote (off-list): >On Monday January 05 2004 12:06 am, Nick Boyce wrote: >> Oh ... thanks .. really ? ... confused I am now. >> >> Anti-aliasing is definitely enabled in Kcontrol - see my screenshot of >> the relevant part of the Kcontrol dialog :

Re: Why Are Some Fonts So Bad ?

2004-01-04 Thread Nick Boyce
On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 12:47:50 +0100, Dominique Devriese wrote: >Nick Boyce writes: > >> I'm running KDE 3.1.4 with XFree86 4.1.0-16 on Woody, with >> anti-aliasing switched on, and although the desktop mostly looks >> pretty slick, there are still some *really* bad font renditions in >> some parts

Re: Why Are Some Fonts So Bad ?

2004-01-04 Thread Nick Boyce
On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 10:57:28 -0600, Bart Dorsey wrote: >On Saturday 03 January 2004 9:32 pm, Nick Boyce wrote: >> I'm running KDE 3.1.4 with XFree86 4.1.0-16 on Woody, with anti-aliasing >> switched on, and although the desktop mostly looks pretty slick, there >> are still some *really* bad font re

Re: Why Are Some Fonts So Bad ?

2004-01-04 Thread Nick Boyce
On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 11:03:33 +0100, Gunter Ohrner wrote: >By the way, *none* of the fonts in the screenshot is anti-aliased. Oh ... thanks .. really ? ... confused I am now. Anti-aliasing is definitely enabled in Kcontrol - see my screenshot of the relevant part of the Kcontrol dialog : http:/

KDE setting xterm resources

2004-01-04 Thread Ross Boylan
My xterm is starting with an Helvetica font under KDE2, which doesn't work well (it's s p a c e d o u t). I have just discovered that xterm is fine under other desktops or window managers, so clearly something in the KDE startu is setting the resource. In particular, xrdb -query reports xterm*Fo

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Re: Why Are Some Fonts So Bad ?

2004-01-04 Thread Dominique Devriese
Chris Cheney writes: > 1. Setup fontconfig properly (enable bitmap fonts) > 2. Install xfonts-konsole > 3. Run fc-cache -f > 4. Restart KDE OK, thanks to all who replied. I first thought it might have been a problem in the KDE packages, but apparently not. My konsole looks a lot better now thou

Solved: Menu font too big

2004-01-04 Thread Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've found that setting in kmailrc. Thanks for your bandwith ;) Es Diumenge 04 Gener 2004 12:48, en Joan Tur va escriure: > Hallo! > > I'm using latest's sid's. I've purged kdm and installed it again, and now > despite I've set menus to show using

Re: Why Are Some Fonts So Bad ?

2004-01-04 Thread Antiphon
A good terminal font to use is Bitstream Mono or Andale Mono. The former can be obtained through the Debian archive while the latter can be obtained by searching for andale.ttf in your favourite search engine. On Sunday 04 January 2004 02:19 pm, Chris Cheney wrote: > On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 12:4

Re: Why Are Some Fonts So Bad ?

2004-01-04 Thread Matej Cepl
On Sunday 04 of January 2004 06:47, Dominique Devriese wrote: > If anyone knows of a way to fix this in the Debian KDE > packages, I'd be very interested to hear it. Also, does anyone > have any idea how to fix the font problems in konsole ( most of > the fonts look ugly, the "linux" and "unicode"

Re: Why Are Some Fonts So Bad ?

2004-01-04 Thread Chris Cheney
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 12:47:50PM +0100, Dominique Devriese wrote: > If anyone knows of a way to fix this in the Debian KDE packages, I'd > be very interested to hear it. Also, does anyone have any idea how to > fix the font problems in konsole ( most of the fonts look ugly, the > "linux" and "un

Re: Why Are Some Fonts So Bad ?

2004-01-04 Thread Bart Dorsey
On Saturday 03 January 2004 9:32 pm, Nick Boyce wrote: > I'm running KDE 3.1.4 with XFree86 4.1.0-16 on Woody, with anti-aliasing > switched on, and although the desktop mostly looks pretty slick, there > are still some *really* bad font renditions in some parts of some > windows. The lines do cau

Re: want to use a certificate with kmail

2004-01-04 Thread Ingo Klöcker
On Sunday 04 January 2004 15:41, LeVA wrote: > I need to use a certificate (issued by TrustCenter) and sign my > messages with it (this is essential for my work). My question is, how > to use this with kmail. I can export this certificate with mozilla, > and it outputs a .p12 file. Is it possible t

want to use a certificate with kmail

2004-01-04 Thread LeVA
Hi! I need to use a certificate (issued by TrustCenter) and sign my messages with it (this is essential for my work). My question is, how to use this with kmail. I can export this certificate with mozilla, and it outputs a .p12 file. Is it possible to load this to kmail? And do I need some add

Re: Why Are Some Fonts So Bad ?

2004-01-04 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Dominique Devriese [Sun, 04 Jan 2004 12:47:50 +0100]: > Also, does anyone have any idea how to > fix the font problems in konsole ( most of the fonts look ugly, the > "linux" and "unicode" fonts don't work, selecting a custom font brings > up very few fonts to cho

Re: kde-3.2 build errors

2004-01-04 Thread Dominique Devriese
k m writes: > Hello I have downloaded and recently updated kde-3.2 cvs source > code. My Debian packages (.deb files) are fine, but some of them I > must finish manually (dh_* scripts), because of debuild > error. (debuild -rfakeroot) > For example: there is no apidocs/common directory in kdebas

Re: Why Are Some Fonts So Bad ?

2004-01-04 Thread Dominique Devriese
Nick Boyce writes: > I'm running KDE 3.1.4 with XFree86 4.1.0-16 on Woody, with > anti-aliasing switched on, and although the desktop mostly looks > pretty slick, there are still some *really* bad font renditions in > some parts of some windows. > For instance, the font used for the words "Did y

Menu font too big

2004-01-04 Thread Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hallo! I'm using latest's sid's. I've purged kdm and installed it again, and now despite I've set menus to show using helvetica 8 they show bigger (probably helvetica 10)... That only happens with kmail. Any idea on where to search? TIA ;) - --

Re: Why Are Some Fonts So Bad ?

2004-01-04 Thread Gunter Ohrner
Nick Boyce wrote: > For instance, the font used for the words "Did you know ?" in the "Tip > Of The Day" dialogs offered by both Konsole and Kate is *awful* - it > looks a mess ... utterly uneven and broken. The might to a large degree be caused by the gray and white stripes in the background. At