SI Reasoning wrote:
> my fonts are all screwy again. I don't think I am
> getting anti-aliasing anymore.
> I have noticed that when my fonts look best there are
> no fonts like adobe-helvetica, adobe-times, etc in the
> konqueror font menu. I also notice that fonts like
> ikarus, ikarus vulture, etc will show up. For some
> reason when fonts like ikarus work, fonts like
> adobe-hellvetica do not.... and vice-versa. Maybe this
> has nothing to do with anti-aliasing (which I admit I
> have very little understanding of....), but when
> ikarus appears as something other than a standard font
> (you CAN easily notice the difference), then all fonts
> available look richer.
>
> Maybe someone has a simple howto to get the fonts
> looking correct in mandrake? I know that I got an
> ikarus appearance a while back by #'ing out the code
> in XftConfig which removed anti-aliasing on fonts
> between 8-14 pt. However, since the upgrade a couple
> of days ago, this trick no longer works.
>
>
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> SI Reasoning
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Si....There are lots of different things you can do to affect
this, but font appearance is subjective, so that diversity is
a good thing (you have choices). You can:
1. goto the KDE control Center->LookNFeel->Style and check
the box in front of 'Use Anti-Aliasing for fonts and icons'.
2. set up Konqueror (both the browser and the file manager).
Under the pull-down menu labeled 'Settings' choose 'Configure
Konqueror' and there are settings for both 'File Manager'
(where you can change the font size) and 'Konqueror Browser'
(where you can change bothe the font itself as wel as the
size).
3. goto the KDE control Center->Fonts and change the default
KDE fonts and their size to ones of your liking (in Fixed
Fonts' a widly used modification is to change from 'courier'
to 'lucidatypewriter')
4. If you have a copy of windows on your computer then use
the 'get windows fonts' button in the 'Mandrake Control
Center' fonts section (font manager) to add the windows fonts
that are on your windows partition to your MandrakeLinux 8.0
system. Then you can choose to use some of them in place of
the default fonts.
5. In '/etc/X11/fs/config': switch the positions of these
lines (edit as 'root') so that the 100dpi line appears before
the 75dpi line:
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled,
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled,
6. In '/etc/X11/fs/config': delete the line concerning
abiword /usr/share/abisuite/AbiSuite/fonts/ (the abisuite
fonts are considered by some folks to be very ugly !!) :)
--
Alan
