On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 21:19, John Bleichert wrote: > On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Robin Damm wrote: > > John Bleichert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Hello All > > > > > > I've just installed a minimal 4.7 box with X, mwm and Mozilla 1.2.1 (which > > > is just plain mozilla in the ports, cvsup'd tongight). For some reason > > > there are very few fonts available in the preferences in Mozilla, and the > > > ones that are there look *awful*. I installed Netscape 4.8 and Opera and > > > the fonts are fine with them. > > > > > > Is something busted with native mozilla 1.2.1? Or am I missing something? > > > It takes a looooong time to build Mozilla on this box... > > > > > > > I'm just speculating, but the "awful" font appearance could be related > > to Xft. I build mozilla with the following option: > > > > # make WITHOUT_XFT=yes > > > > This greatly improves font appearance in mozilla (IMHO). There may be > > a way to fix this by tuning X, but then you have two problems :) > > > > Do post if you find a workaround other than recompiling with the > > above option. > > > > I was unable to find a solution - however, your method above worked like a > charm. Thanks for the hint! Normally I've never had to do this. Perhaps it > changed with the new mozilla build?
The new Mozilla supports Xft for anti-aliasing of fonts. This is enabled by default as this seems to be a desired feature. Moving forward, you should keep WITHOUT_XFT defined in /etc/make.conf if you're having problems. Joe > > JB > > # John Bleichert > # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc
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