David Durham wrote:
> 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
Davy....it depends on your monitor size and the resolution
you're running whether that font is readable or not. Perhaps
the person who set up the defaults was using a 14" monitor
running at 640x480? Who knows?! :)
--
Alan
