John Levon wrote: > On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 11:19:23AM -0700, Lurie wrote: > > >>> I don't know what kind of display you have, but on my >>> LCD it's very >>> obvious that Firefox 2 (on the right) has clear and >>> readable fonts, and >>> Firefox 3 (on the left) has dreadfully muddy ones. >>> >> On my screen the one on the left looks way better >> > > What type of screen do you have? > > >>> If you have a config option to turn the latter into >>> the former, I'd be >>> super happy. I couldn't find anything, beyond turning >>> off anti-aliasing >>> altogether, which is even worse. >>> >> fire up gnome-font-properties , enable full-hinting >> > > There is no such binary in Nevada. Running gnome-appearance-properties > fails: > > "Unable to start the settings manager 'gnome-settings-daemon'. > Without the GNOME settings manager running, some preferences may not > take effect." > > Presumably because I'm exporting the X display. It does eventually start > (incredibly slowly), but any settings changes make no difference. (I'm > pretty sure I tested this before). > > It might look better on 1600x display, perhaps? > > regards > john > _______________________________________________ > indiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss > Looks better on 16:10, but smaller 4:3 is not noticable. (1440x900 vs 1024x768)
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