On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Rich Shepard wrote:
> I've not run LyX since I upgraded my network to RH 7.3 last autumn. I just
> fired it up to write an article and the fonts look terrible: all jagged. So,
> I thought that I'd upgrade from 1.2.1. to 1.2.2. However, ./configure fails
Upgrading lyx will probably not fix your fonts. First thing to try is
disable "Rescale bitmap fonts" in Edit -> Preferences ("Use scalable
fonts" in lyx 1.1). If the fonts still look crap, edit you font paths in
/etc/X11/fs/config. I got so fed up with ugly scalable fonts in X, and the
hassles of trying to get them working, that I've gone back to using only
the core X bitmap fonts, unscaled. This is what my "catalogue" entry looks
like in /etc/X11/fs/config
catalogue = /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled,
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled,
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled
After editing the file, exit or kill X, restart xfs:
# /etc/init.d/xfs restart
then restart X.
Steve
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