[newbie] Font anti-aliasing not working on Mandrive LE 2005

2005-06-10 Thread John Zoetebier
I have installen Mandriva LE 2005 on 2 different PCs. Both have the same problem : anti-aliasing is not working anymore. One OC has a Prosavage K133 and the other has a ATI Radeon 9200 video card. All other graphics work fine like movies or pictures. It's only the fonts that look coarse. I have tri

Re: [newbie] Font Size & kde

2004-08-23 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 02:42, Mark Gibson wrote: > I upgraded from Mandrake 9 to Mandrake 10. I'm runnning kde, and I use > Ximian Evolution as my mail program. > > Since upgrading, the font used in ximian for displaying the list of > emails is very small - not too small to read, but annoying non

Re: [newbie] Font Size & kde

2004-08-23 Thread Thereidos
W liście z pon, 23-08-2004, godz. 20:12, Hoyt Bailey pisze: > On Monday 23 August 2004 11:42, Mark Gibson wrote: > > I upgraded from Mandrake 9 to Mandrake 10. I'm runnning kde, and I > > use Ximian Evolution as my mail program. > > > > Since upgrading, the font used in ximian for displaying the

Re: [newbie] Font Size & kde

2004-08-23 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Monday 23 August 2004 11:42, Mark Gibson wrote: > I upgraded from Mandrake 9 to Mandrake 10. I'm runnning kde, and I > use Ximian Evolution as my mail program. > > Since upgrading, the font used in ximian for displaying the list of > emails is very small - not too small to read, but annoying >

[newbie] Font Size & kde

2004-08-23 Thread Mark Gibson
I upgraded from Mandrake 9 to Mandrake 10. I'm runnning kde, and I use Ximian Evolution as my mail program. Since upgrading, the font used in ximian for displaying the list of emails is very small - not too small to read, but annoying nonetheless. I also see this small font in gnumeric and GNOM

[newbie] Font problem

2004-08-15 Thread Alan Dunford
Yesterday I did a routine urpmi update - security, bugs and normal updates but did not make a note of the programs to be updated. I suppose about 30 programs in all were affected. However, everything appeared to install correctly and the update list is now empty, but the next time I fired up

Re: [newbie] Font for Website

2004-06-19 Thread JoeHill
On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 20:06:23 +0300 OOzy disseminated the following: > > > Have you imported these fonts from windows? Mandrake doesn't have this > > > fonts > > > so you have to import them > > > > ...more important is what font the people viewing your webpage will see. If > > they > > do no

Re: [newbie] Font for Website

2004-06-19 Thread Frank
I think the point trying to be made here is that you wish to specify the fonts seen by visitors. The only sure way I would suggest, is that you 'graphic~ize' your content complete with 'alt' tags. This way when your page is rendered within any browser, regardless of OS, then visitors get to se

Re: [newbie] Font for Website

2004-06-19 Thread Todd Slater
On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 06:40:35PM +0200, Cezary Morga wrote: > Dnia sob 19. czerwca 2004 17:31, OOzy napisa?: > > The font in my websites is not as nice as it should. Is it because of my > > css? > > > > I use the following family: > > > > P { font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; fo

Re: [newbie] Font for Website

2004-06-19 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2004-06-20 at 02:58, OOzy wrote: > On Sat, 2004-06-19 at 19:40, Cezary Morga wrote: > > Dnia sob 19. czerwca 2004 17:31, OOzy napisa3: > > > The font in my websites is not as nice as it should. Is it because of my > > > css? > > > > > > I use the following family: > > > > > > P { font-famil

Re: [newbie] Font for Website

2004-06-19 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2004-06-20 at 01:31, OOzy wrote: > The font in my websites is not as nice as it should. Is it because of my > css? > > I use the following family: > > P { font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: > small; } Install the TTF fonts into Mandrake - and you should be all

Re: [newbie] Font for Website

2004-06-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
OOzy wrote: Thanks, I am downloading as I typing; however, what would happen if I move my site to a web-host? Would they have these font installed. If they don't then my site won't look good for Linux users It is not the web-host, but the machine displaying the web page that needs the fonts ins

Re: [newbie] Font for Website

2004-06-19 Thread OOzy
On Sat, 2004-06-19 at 19:40, Cezary Morga wrote: > Dnia sob 19. czerwca 2004 17:31, OOzy napisał: > > The font in my websites is not as nice as it should. Is it because of my > > css? > > > > I use the following family: > > > > P { font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: > >

Re: [newbie] Font for Website

2004-06-19 Thread Cezary Morga
Dnia sob 19. czerwca 2004 17:31, OOzy napisał: > The font in my websites is not as nice as it should. Is it because of my > css? > > I use the following family: > > P { font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: > small; } Have you imported these fonts from windows? Mandrake doe

[newbie] Font for Website

2004-06-19 Thread OOzy
The font in my websites is not as nice as it should. Is it because of my css? I use the following family: P { font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; } Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go t

[newbie] Font encoding of the xchat logs

2004-03-21 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All I would like to know how to change the font encoding of the xchat logs, as some strange characters appear. Thank you a lot in advance! Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Jo

Re: [newbie] Font rendering tips

2004-02-24 Thread John Richard Smith
Troy Thomas Hall wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: Troy Thomas Hall wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: I just made a huge improvement to the look of the fonts on my screen by making a small change to one of the XFree86 config files. This will probably help you if you ever noticed when switching from s

Re: [newbie] Font rendering tips

2004-02-24 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 24 February 2004 02:09 pm, Troy Thomas Hall wrote: > > The way I did it was to hit the calibrate, slide the little black arrow > to a point that matched a measurement on my ruler and then entered those > values in the boxes. Was this right? > Troy I don't recall a black arrow, but each

Re: [newbie] Font rendering tips

2004-02-24 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 24 February 2004 07:24 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > Greg Meyer wrote: > >On Tuesday 24 February 2004 05:45 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > >>OK, I followed you as far as here, see snapshot384.png. > >>so how does the ruler then come in ? > > > >Click the calibrate button. > > Yep, got

Re: [newbie] Font rendering tips

2004-02-24 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 24 February 2004 07:24 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > Greg Meyer wrote: > >On Tuesday 24 February 2004 05:45 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > >>OK, I followed you as far as here, see snapshot384.png. > >>so how does the ruler then come in ? > > > >Click the calibrate button. > > Yep, got

Re: [newbie] Font rendering tips

2004-02-24 Thread John Richard Smith
Greg Meyer wrote: On Tuesday 24 February 2004 05:45 am, John Richard Smith wrote: OK, I followed you as far as here, see snapshot384.png. so how does the ruler then come in ? Click the calibrate button. Yep, got there in the end. Say, This is all about visual display calibration, (i

Re: [newbie] Font rendering tips

2004-02-24 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 24 February 2004 05:45 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > OK, I followed you as far as here, see snapshot384.png. > so how does the ruler then come in ? Click the calibrate button. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Font rendering tips

2004-02-24 Thread John Richard Smith
Troy Thomas Hall wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: I just made a huge improvement to the look of the fonts on my screen by making a small change to one of the XFree86 config files. This will probably help you if you ever noticed when switching from say a 9 point to a 10 point font there is no change i

Re: [newbie] Font rendering tips

2004-02-24 Thread John Richard Smith
Greg Meyer wrote: I just made a huge improvement to the look of the fonts on my screen by making a small change to one of the XFree86 config files. This will probably help you if you ever noticed when switching from say a 9 point to a 10 point font there is no change in how the font is rendere

Re: [newbie] Font rendering tips

2004-02-24 Thread John Richard Smith
Greg Meyer wrote: I just made a huge improvement to the look of the fonts on my screen by making a small change to one of the XFree86 config files. This will probably help you if you ever noticed when switching from say a 9 point to a 10 point font there is no change in how the font is rendere

[newbie] Font rendering tips

2004-02-23 Thread Greg Meyer
I just made a huge improvement to the look of the fonts on my screen by making a small change to one of the XFree86 config files. This will probably help you if you ever noticed when switching from say a 9 point to a 10 point font there is no change in how the font is rendered on screen, or if

Re: [newbie] Font spacing in kword in M9.1

2003-12-18 Thread John Richard Smith
kword character spacing === kword sends a printfile to another printer model with correct character spacing,while the same file to my printer does not. Much later Seems this problem is font related. see, http://www.koffice.org/faq/#InprintoutKOfficereplacessomeofmyfontswi

Re: [newbie] Font spacing in kword in M9.1

2003-12-12 Thread John Richard Smith
kword character spacing === After some experimenting I found out, kword sends a printfile to another printer model with correct character spacing,while the same file to my printer does not. While OTOH, Mozilla sends files correctly to my printer without character spacing problem

Re: [newbie] Font spacing in kword in M9.1

2003-12-06 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 06 Dec 2003 3:21 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > Having got the printer to work in MD9.1, I am thinking of wiping > M9.0 for MD9.2 install, but if I cannot use kword in MD9.1, then , > I have to reconsider my options. It's a pain to switch word > processor. It just seems daft that kword

Re: [newbie] Font spacing in kword in M9.1

2003-12-06 Thread John Richard Smith
Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 06 Dec 2003 12:21 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: It seems like I will be joining you with OO if I cannot fix my kword print problem. I have a choice of 4 drivers for my Z53 printers(of which we have 3) and I make a practice of setting up all 4 every time. 3 of thes

Re: [newbie] Font spacing in kword in M9.1

2003-12-06 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 06 Dec 2003 12:21 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > Charlie wrote: > >>I usually adopt helvetica, but it doesn't seem to make any > >> difference. It looks reasonable on screen, I say > >> reasonable,though perhaps still a little close, but in print > >> preview, and actual print off, it

Re: [newbie] Font spacing in kword in M9.1

2003-12-06 Thread John Richard Smith
Charlie wrote: I usually adopt helvetica, but it doesn't seem to make any difference. It looks reasonable on screen, I say reasonable,though perhaps still a little close, but in print preview, and actual print off, it is all too close set to be easily readable. I never had this problem before. Jo

Re: [newbie] Font spacing in kword in M9.1

2003-12-05 Thread Charlie
On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 05:27 pm, many eyes noted that John Richard Smith wrote: > >I don;t think you can adjust spacing at all. Which font are you using > >John? I use Sans, regular, 10 pt, and everything is very easy to > >read. > > > >Anne > > I usually adopt helvetica, but it doesn't seem to make

Re: [newbie] Font spacing in kword in M9.1

2003-12-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 05 Dec 2003 6:27 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > > I usually adopt helvetica, but it doesn't seem to make any > difference. It looks reasonable on screen, I say reasonable,though > perhaps still a little close, but in print preview, and actual > print off, it is all too close set to be ea

Re: [newbie] Font spacing in kword in M9.1

2003-12-05 Thread John Richard Smith
Mark Kirschner wrote: John asked: How do you reset the spacing between characters in kword ? I need to increase the spacing from the current default setting which virtually merges them. I'm not talking about line spacing. Just did a check in Kword myself. There doesn't appear to be a way. Unfortu

Re: [newbie] Font spacing in kword in M9.1

2003-12-05 Thread John Richard Smith
Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 04 Dec 2003 9:53 am, John Richard Smith wrote: How do you reset the spacing between characters in kword ? I need to increase the spacing from the current default setting which virtually merges them. I'm not talking about line spacing. John I don;t think you

[newbie] Font spacing in kword in M9.1

2003-12-04 Thread John Richard Smith
How do you reset the spacing between characters in kword ? I need to increase the spacing from the current default setting which virtually merges them. I'm not talking about line spacing. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go t

[newbie] Font question -- Helvetica not accessible

2003-08-14 Thread deedee
For some reason (that I hope someone here knows), I'm getting the following messages as xsession errors: The font "-*-helvetica-boldoblique-r-narrow-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" does not support all the required character sets for the current locale "en_US" (Missing character set "ISO8859-1") (Missin

Re: [newbie] Font problem in Kword

2003-01-04 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 04 Jan 2003 7:11 am, Rifza Adriansyah wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Friday 03 January 2003 11:52 am, Greg wrote: > > I am running Mandrake 9.0 with Koffice 1.2.1. I imported MS fonts > > from windows partition. When I try to print using any of those >

Re: [newbie] Font problem in Kword

2003-01-04 Thread Rifza Adriansyah
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 03 January 2003 11:52 am, Greg wrote: > I am running Mandrake 9.0 with Koffice 1.2.1. I imported MS fonts > from windows partition. When I try to print using any of those > fonts it prints incorrectly, even though it shows on screen > corre

[newbie] Font problem in Kword

2003-01-02 Thread Greg
I am running Mandrake 9.0 with Koffice 1.2.1. I imported MS fonts from windows partition. When I try to print using any of those fonts it prints incorrectly, even though it shows on screen correctly. When I use Open office the fonts view and print correctly. How can I get Kword to print tho

Re: [newbie] font size in konqueror

2002-11-20 Thread meteor
Hmm, I'm using 3.0.3 and it enlarges even text, which size is set explicitly by a style sheet. Perhaps to you have to press multiple times the +/- buttons? On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 15:44, bascule wrote: > is the minimum font size set in konqueror overidable by individual web sites? > i've set my min

[newbie] font size in konqueror

2002-11-19 Thread bascule
is the minimum font size set in konqueror overidable by individual web sites? i've set my minimum to be 11 with a 17" crt, my eyesight can't really cope with less, however often i have to use the 'increase font size' button to be able to read! fonts and stuff always went over my head, is it just

Re: [newbie] Font

2002-11-09 Thread Joseph Braddock
What is the font and where did you get it from? Joeb On Sat, 9 Nov 2002 18:46:28 +1100 Trevor Rhodes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I'm in need of a font. I used a font from 8.2 to create a rather large > document that I need to have remain the same. How would I get that fo

[newbie] Font

2002-11-08 Thread Trevor Rhodes
Hello Everyone, I'm in need of a font. I used a font from 8.2 to create a rather large document that I need to have remain the same. How would I get that font back from 8.2 into 9.0? Any ideas? Regards Trevor Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.ma

[newbie] font problem in wine

2002-11-03 Thread chuck
I'm trying to run a couple of programs under wine but the fonts are screwed up. All characters just show up as squares. Anybody seen this before or know how to fix it? -Chuck Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] font viewer

2001-12-15 Thread Michel Clasquin
> Thanks, Ivan, but that one only previews already *installed* fonts. Now > if I have a cdrom with a 1000 fonts on it I suppose I could install them > all, pray that the fontserver can take the load, and uninstall the ones > I don't want. A font viewer for *uninstalled* fonts seems a kinder, > g

Re: [newbie] font viewer

2001-12-15 Thread Michel Clasquin
On Saturday 15 December 2001 16:10, you wrote: > In the DrakConf menu there is a Font Utility (I can't think of the name > of it, but it might be DrakFont) that will manage your fonts and even > grab Windows fonts off a Windows partition. I haven't used it > personally, but I believe that you coul

Re: [newbie] Font size in Kwrite?

2001-07-31 Thread Olaf Marzocchi
At 08.35 31/07/01, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: >On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 16:02, Dr. Evil wrote: > > Konqueror is a great web browser, but when I go to view source, it is > > so small that I can't read it. I have to save it to a file, open a > > terminal, and look at it with less. That is not a good way

RE: [newbie] Font size in Kwrite?

2001-07-30 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
: [newbie] Font size in Kwrite? Konqueror is a great web browser, but when I go to view source, it is so small that I can't read it. I have to save it to a file, open a terminal, and look at it with less. That is not a good way to do web development. I read the Kwrite instructions, and it

[newbie] Font size in Kwrite?

2001-07-30 Thread Dr. Evil
Konqueror is a great web browser, but when I go to view source, it is so small that I can't read it. I have to save it to a file, open a terminal, and look at it with less. That is not a good way to do web development. I read the Kwrite instructions, and it talks about a menu to change font an

Re: [newbie] Font Questions

2001-07-07 Thread Judith Miner
Jamie wrote: >> This might sound a bit stupid but have you read through the how-to's? The should be a load installed on your system under /usr/doc/how-to/, and im sure i saw one about extended charecters on your keyboard. << Yes, I've looked. I printed out the entire Font How-To, read the DeUglif

RE: [newbie] Font Questions

2001-07-06 Thread Adams, Jamie
Miner[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: 06 July 2001 15:40 >To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [newbie] Font Questions > >Civileme wrote: >>> Well, you need an international keyboard. Go to Mandrake Control >Center-->Hàrdwárë-->Keyboard > >Sélèct &q

Re: [newbie] Font Questions

2001-07-06 Thread Judith Miner
Civileme wrote: >> Well, you need an international keyboard. Go to Mandrake Control Center-->Hàrdwárë-->Keyboard Sélèct "U S International" Close Mandrake Contröl Center. Now you will find some keys appear to be dead. ` ' " for example. They must be typed twice. If you type them once, then

[newbie] Font Questions

2001-07-05 Thread Judith Miner
I have searched all the font How-To's and online sites I could find and cannot find the answer to this question. Can anyone help? How do you enter nonkeyboard characters into something like KWord? By "nonkeyboard characters," I mean accented letters, fractions, em dashes, bullets. true typographi

[newbie] font server / true type, X crashing

2001-06-30 Thread David E. Fox
Still playing from time to time with true type fonts. Anyway, after reading some messages on this list, I noticed that I had a few ttf fonts laying around in /usr/share/fonts/ttf/western, and that (according to /etc/X11/fs/config) that path was in the xserver's font- path, and (of course) the xfs

Re: [newbie] font antialiasing

2001-05-30 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Dave DeGear wrote: > I've gone in to the KDE Control Center under Fonts and > can't find an option for antialias. Where exactly would I > find this? > > By the way, is there a way to set up the Samba from a Menu? > I haven't been able to find it under the Control Center. > > Thanks.

Re: [newbie] font antialiasing

2001-05-30 Thread s
On Wednesday 30 May 2001 09:48 am, you wrote: > > How can we see if this option > > works or not? > > I don't have a definitive answer for this -- partly is, "do they look > good", but that's not the entire answer because fonts can look bad for > other reasons. > > Hope this helps, or provokes cla

Re: [newbie] font antialiasing

2001-05-30 Thread Dave DeGear
I've gone in to the KDE Control Center under Fonts and can't find an option for antialias. Where exactly would I find this? By the way, is there a way to set up the Samba from a Menu? I haven't been able to find it under the Control Center. Thanks. ...Dave Quoting Jam

Re: [newbie] font antialiasing

2001-05-30 Thread Marc Audard
Hi, Thanks. Is it also possible to enable antialiasing in Gnome Control Center? Marc

Re: [newbie] font antialiasing

2001-05-30 Thread James Bond
I'm no computer expert, but I do know what antialiasing means and I can try to extrapolate its meaning to fonts. Antialiasing is when a computer blurs a line to make it smooth. Whenever a computer makes a line at an angle, it is never smooth. You may notice this if you make a slanted line in

Re: [newbie] font antialiasing

2001-05-30 Thread Randy Kramer
I'd like to try to answer your first two questions, I can't readily answer the third. Marc Audard wrote: > > What is the purpose of it? To make fonts more easily readable. > Is there a gentle soul to explain what the fonts antialiasing > is? 1. When a character is displayed on a monitor, it

[newbie] font antialiasing

2001-05-30 Thread Marc Audard
Is there a gentle soul to explain what the fonts antialiasing is? What is the purpose of it? How can we see if this option works or not? Thanks, Marc

[newbie] Font problem in LM8

2001-05-16 Thread Marcia Waller
Dear All, I had great looking fonts in 7.2 but some of the fonts on the internet and in some apps are almost illegible in my newly installed LM8. What can I do to improve this? Any help will be appreciated. Thank you. Marcia

[newbie] Font server not loading

2001-04-03 Thread BJS
Hi All My first question to this list. I am running Mandrake 7.2 on a celeron 500 machine w/256M of ram. Creative TNT2 ultra vid card and no sound card. I got it installed no problem. It booted up fine right into X windows. My buddy came over this weekend to help me set it up so I could conne

Re: [newbie] FONT UGLINESS

2001-03-28 Thread Dennis Myers
On Wednesday 28 March 2001 01:29 pm, you wrote: > Some folks have found fonts too big for the space available (when testing > beta2), and others have reported ugly fonts they were unable to change. > > Most of this might be attributed to anti-aliasing. > > We set it ON on the Beta2. We are settin

[newbie] FONT UGLINESS

2001-03-28 Thread Civileme
Some folks have found fonts too big for the space available (when testing beta2), and others have reported ugly fonts they were unable to change. Most of this might be attributed to anti-aliasing. We set it ON on the Beta2. We are setting it OFF in the Beta3. http://perso.mandrakesoft.com/

[newbie] Font Paths Are All shot Up

2001-02-21 Thread Matthew J Fletcher
Hi,. I crashed mandrake recently and broke my font config, the only way i can get X to startup without the famous errno 2, 'default font 'fixed' not found, message is to hack my X config to,.. FontPath="/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc" if i try FontPath="/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:/usr/X11R

[newbie] Font Ugliness

2000-12-31 Thread eryl
Can anyone tell me why, even with XF86 ver 4.x, I STILL have to edit my XF86.config file and invert the 75dpi and 100dpi entries??? Why doesn't X use the 100 dpi fonts by default? What is the purpose of the default at 75dpi I'll bet this is one of the biggest pains for the newbies and the u

[newbie] Font color?

2000-10-04 Thread yue . m . ma
Hi there, When I open a terminal, looks like Linux use the green color for every executable file, and the red for compressed file, etc. How can I change this color schema? Thanks! Yue

[newbie] font drake for 7.02

2000-07-22 Thread Dacia and AzureRose
Hey, has anyone tried to install font drake in 7.02? The one thing that I really liked about 7.1 was being able to use my wandows fonts. I'm going to download the RPM for it when I get home from work tonight and give it a try. I'll post my experience for the edification of all. Thanks for any

Re: [newbie] Font Selection in X and Console

2000-07-04 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Try DrakFont, available in the Mandrake 7.1 GPL version. It also handles TrueType (TTF) fonts as used in WinDOS and a few other OSs. If you want good looking screen fonts, then I've found that the best way to go is to install and use the default Windoze TTF fonts (Arial, Times New Roman, Courier N

[newbie] Font Selection in X and Console

2000-07-02 Thread Adam Stark
Hi, I was wondering how to change/preview/install fonts for the console and the X windows system. Is there a nice GUI program for this? I ask because currently some fonts don't display properly in X programs or the console, and I don't like to type. :) Also, I would like to make this a permanen

[newbie] Font selection in X and console

2000-07-01 Thread Adam Stark
Hi, I was wondering how to change/preview/install fonts for the console and the X windows system. Is there a nice GUI program for this? I ask because currently some fonts don't display properly in X programs or the console, and I don't like to type. :) Adam Stark

[newbie] font question

2000-04-17 Thread Rich Foreman
Hi, I have noticed that in netscape and mozilla, my fonts are all REAL small unless I go change the size, then it still isn't right. Is there any way to change this in the system. It seems like it is coming from Linux, since I installed mozilla on windows also and it works fine there. Thanks,

[newbie] Font Sizes

2000-04-08 Thread Lane Lester
Since I changed to the Mozilla fonts (and can now read the text on Web pages in Netscape) the text in the menu lines (and such) of Netscape and some other X programs is too large. In what file are those font sizes set? -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get wher

[newbie] Font Sizes

2000-04-05 Thread Lane Lester
Since I changed to the Mozilla fonts (and can now read the text on Web pages in Netscape) the text in the menu lines (and such) of Netscape and some other X programs is too large. In what file are those font sizes set? -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get wher

Re: [newbie] FONT Q: blocky text in Netscape?

2000-01-19 Thread Chris Reeder
Did you check the settings under Edit>Preferences>Fonts? On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, you wrote: > Not new to Linux, but new to Mandrake. > Installed 6.3 and I remember hearing it came with some > truetype fonts built in or something. > > But when I opened Netscape, and went to some websites > I had d

[newbie] FONT Q: blocky text in Netscape?

2000-01-19 Thread Derek Sivers
Not new to Linux, but new to Mandrake. Installed 6.3 and I remember hearing it came with some truetype fonts built in or something. But when I opened Netscape, and went to some websites I had designed, some text was big and blocky like a Xerox logo or something. (You know - where the letter A lo

Re: [newbie] Font trouble

1999-11-16 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, you wrote: > I have a similar problem. I downloaded a seven meg file from rpmfind.net, > but it appears to be the wrong file. As I am a dummy, can someone let me > know what I'm looking for? > > *I* certainly don't know...however a quick search of the archives of this list f

Re: [newbie] Font trouble

1999-11-15 Thread Art
nday, November 15, 1999 11:09 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Font trouble > On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, you wrote: > > I've recently tried to install 6.1 on my HP 6357 and everything worked out > > except one minor > > detail, there were no fonts. On tbe desktop some of the icons showe

Re: [newbie] Font trouble

1999-11-15 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, you wrote: > I've recently tried to install 6.1 on my HP 6357 and everything worked out > except one minor > detail, there were no fonts. On tbe desktop some of the icons showed up > as a black shadow, > others were fine, but not one letter showed up. I've had this type of

Re: [newbie] Font trouble

1999-11-14 Thread Steve Philp
Victor Henderson wrote: > > I've recently tried to install 6.1 on my HP 6357 and everything worked out > except one minor > detail, there were no fonts. On tbe desktop some of the icons showed up > as a black shadow, > others were fine, but not one letter showed up. I've had this type of > pro

[newbie] Font trouble

1999-11-14 Thread Victor Henderson
I've recently tried to install 6.1 on my HP 6357 and everything worked out except one minor detail, there were no fonts. On tbe desktop some of the icons showed up as a black shadow, others were fine, but not one letter showed up. I've had this type of problem with windows also where the fonts