Thank U Holly, I've a few questions then:
1) what do u mean with *real* fonts? I've this fonts under /usr/share/fonts ...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/share/fonts $ ls 100dpi TTF corefonts freefont misc ttf-bitstream-vera 75dpi Type1 default lfp-fix ms-truetype unifont CID afms encodings lfpfonts-var sharefonts util Speedo artwiz fonts.cache-1 local terminus
Yes, but your screenshot shows your font preferences for Firefox, and you aren't using any of those fonts. You're using 'serif', 'sans serif' and 'monospace', which are corefonts, which are ugly as sin. You do know you can change these to things like Bitstream Vera Serif, Bitstream Vera Sans and Bitstream Vera Mono, in the very dialog that is displayed in your screenshot, right? This should improve the rendering of the webpages themselves, which is what this setting controls. We are talking about two separate issues, you know-- the font used to render the web page display (which is controlled by Firefox itself), and the fonts used to render the application window (which is controlled by the window manager's governing library, meaning GTK or QT). Firefox is a GTK2 application.
2) I'm emerging gtk-chtheme, does this work better than kcontrol - fonts section?
Yes, because Mozilla/Firefox/Thunderbird are GTK apps, not KDE/QT apps-- so kcontrol has no control by default over what fonts they use to display their windows unless you get the gtk-qt engine from either gnome-look.org or kde-look.org, and/or check the little checkbox that says "allow non-KDE apps to use my KDE settings" in KControl (which you should also do). That generally works, but not for all GTK apps (especially GTK1 apps). gtk-chtheme allows you to set the fonts and theme for these apps independently, although it may mean that you might need to trawl around gnome-look.org to find some themes that nearly match your (there are some in Portage).
Why are we even talking about KDE if you use fluxbox? KControl isn't available in fluxbox any more than it is in GNOME.
3) I like artwiz-fonts but apart from that I'm using them because they are the only fonts which seem good renderered to me, the point about firefox that seems strange to me is that even the menu' and toolbars fonts (which are not configurable) are bad-rendered, maybe it's really a problem of gtk configuration...
Yes, it is-- because since you do not use GNOME, you have no real GTK configuration, and the defaults used in the absence of active configuration look like junk, generally.
Holly
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