Re: Fuzzy fonts under 2.2.2?

2003-06-25 Thread Geoff
On 24 Jun 2003 23:31:07 +0200 Soeren Sandmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip The variant that I use is match target=font test qual=any name=size compare=less double14/double /test test qual=any name=size compare=more

Re: Fuzzy fonts under 2.2.2?

2003-06-25 Thread Olaf Frczyk
On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 23:31, Soeren Sandmann wrote: Ie. antialias, but only when the size is below 8 or above 14. This is an approximation on what windows does. Windows uses extra information in the fonts about when to antialias that is unfortunately not available though FreeType. Could you

Re: Fuzzy fonts under 2.2.2?

2003-06-25 Thread Soeren Sandmann
Olaf Frczyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 23:31, Soeren Sandmann wrote: Ie. antialias, but only when the size is below 8 or above 14. This is an approximation on what windows does. Windows uses extra information in the fonts about when to antialias that is unfortunately

Fuzzy fonts under 2.2.2?

2003-06-24 Thread Geoff
Hello, Sorry if this is a really stupid question, but I am puzzled. I just upgraded from gtk+-2.0.9 to 2.2.2. I don't run gnome, but I think I have all necessary libraries. I am running Xfree 4.3 and the icewm WM. I am no expert on fonts. I work mostly in arial, and I immediately noticed

Re: Fuzzy fonts under 2.2.2?

2003-06-24 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Geoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just upgraded from gtk+-2.0.9 to 2.2.2. I don't run gnome, but I think I have all necessary libraries. I am running Xfree 4.3 and the icewm WM. I am no expert on fonts. I work mostly in arial, and I immediately noticed that the font seems to look

Re: Fuzzy fonts under 2.2.2?

2003-06-24 Thread Geoff
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 17:13:48 +0200 Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip GTK+-2.2 by default uses Xft2 to render antialiased fonts while GTK+-2.0 defaulted to the old-fashioned X11 core fonts. If you really don't like the new font rendering, you can set the environment variable

Re: Fuzzy fonts under 2.2.2?

2003-06-24 Thread Geoff
On 24 Jun 2003 10:14:15 -0500 edscott wilson garcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip The fuzzy fonts are supposed to look better, called antialised. Pango is doing the font rendering so you can probably eliminate them by configuring or recompiling pango. Thanks for that edscott. As you

Re: Fuzzy fonts under 2.2.2?

2003-06-24 Thread Jesse Pavel
Geoff on June 24, 2003 wrote: Thank-you very much for that Sven. I already have freetype 2.1.4 (which seems to be current), with the bytecode interpreter enabled. I set GDK_USE_XFT=0 and (as you anticipated), everything went back to normal, so at least I know that I can use that

Re: Fuzzy fonts under 2.2.2?

2003-06-24 Thread Geoff
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 12:53:23 -0400 Jesse Pavel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you'd like to use Xft2 (which I suppose you'll have to in 2.4), but don't want anti-aliased fonts, you can have Xft2 turn off the antialiasing by following the instructions at

Re: Fuzzy fonts under 2.2.2?

2003-06-24 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 12:53:23PM -0400, Jesse Pavel wrote: If you'd like to use Xft2 (which I suppose you'll have to in 2.4), but don't want anti-aliased fonts, you can have Xft2 turn off the antialiasing by following the instructions at http://www.xfree86.org/~dawes/4.3.0/fonts2.html#4

Re: Fuzzy fonts under 2.2.2?

2003-06-24 Thread Geoff
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 15:09:24 -0400 Havoc Pennington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip With GNOME 2.2 you could also just go to Preferences-Fonts and disable AA in there. I will bear that in mind. Sometimes I miss the convenience of a desktop - and I run more gnome-apps than anythign else, but

Re: Fuzzy fonts under 2.2.2?

2003-06-24 Thread Soeren Sandmann
Geoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks for that edscott. As you will see from my reply to Sven, setting GDK_USE_XFT=0 fixes the problem for the time being. If the antialiasing is responsible for what I see, then I hate it. I will have a look at the pango options. The variant that I use is