I've recently installed xserver-xorg that is in unstable. Everything went smoothly, and everything runs fine. I just have one small, but terribly annoying problem now: non-antialiased fonts, possibly only TrueType ones, like "arial", now look ugly. Before the upgrade, non-AA 12pt arial looked just as nice as 12pt helvetica (bitmap font). Now, it looks like a poorly scaled bitmap font, with an extra pixel here, or a misplaced one there.
* is this a known problem? * anybody else experience this? * if not, what should I look at to further diagnose the problem? * is there some good, recent, up-to-date, Debian specific document giving a comprehensive overview of fonts on X11? As is, I'm feeling rather lost, with so many disparate pieces in the puzzle, and trying to get a coherent picture as to how they all interrelate (X11, xft, xfs, xfstt, fontconfig, defoma, the mass of disparate font paths [I think there's at least 10 paths for TrueType fonts alone on my system], etc.) I scoured Google, tried various things in ~/.fonts.conf, etc., but nothing seems to make this ugliness go away. Font rendering in X11/Linux seemed to be in constant state of flux, which tends to make obsolete any font HOWTOs and solutions at a frustrating rate... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
