On 13 Aug 2001 23:05:37 -0700, Alan Shoemaker wrote:
>
> 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
>
I have a question: I install Mandrake 8.0 and go into KDE Look & Feel
do-hicky where it gives me a choice of selecting my default fixed width
font (among others). Why is the default fixed width font un-readable
(which is not a subjective matter)? Is this not true for everyone
else?
Then I import the windows fonts from a windows 2000 install which also
includes the default fonts, Adobe products fonts and MS office 2000
fonts. Now, when I hit the button to change the default fixed width
font (in KDE look & feel) and that configuration app locks up. Could
one particular font that was imported cause this?
Thanks,
-- Davy
