On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 20:15, Ken Thompson wrote: > On Tuesday 22 July 2003 12:17 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > > > Regarding changes in gaim, yes the changes stay as I have set them but to > > > no effect, nothing is changed in the message window, either incoming nor > > > outgoing. > > > Just using the "out of the box" theme for 9.1 (Keramik, I think).. > > > Another thing that may be related, I'm using the Yahoo Messenger protocol > > > and am also having font problems with ymessenger under 9.1. > > > In fact, that is why I changed to gaim in the first place, the fonts in > > > ymessenger are extremely tiny - totally unreadable and no change can be > > > made to them either. > > > SuSE 8.2 treats Ymessenger the same as Mandrake 9.0 did, it works as > > > advertised. Haven't tried latest gaim on SuSE yet, might be interesting > > > <G>.... > > > Strangely enough, ymessenger worked just fine in the first couple of 9.1 > > > betas, XFree 4.2.99, but went totally bonkers after the change to 4.3.x.. > > > There has to be some place that controls the font rendering in these two > > > applications aside from all the rest. The rest of the system is perfectly > > > OK. No font issues at all with any other app's just these two... > > > > As for the out of the box theme. It's galaxy. And now I see that we do > > notice the same things. As for ymessenger. It was built for MDK 8.0. > > This alone should explain why it doesn't work at all on 9.1. On the > > other... Seems to be a yahoo thing. > > > > James > Yeah, I'd about come to that conclusion too. > It does seem kinda strange that ymessy works OK on SuSE 8.2, though.. > Tried it out and came right back "home" <G>.. If I was smart enough to find > what SuSE did (or didn't) do I'd try making the changes and see if it would > work on MDK. > Mandrake kernel: 2.4.21-0.13mdk > SuSE kernel: 2.4.20-4GB > Both running Xfree 4.3x.... > It's gotten to be kind of a challenge no to find out why if I can...
I think it has something to do with the attempts MDK is making at anti-aliased founts. Not sure.
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