At 04:07 PM 7/17/2001 +0200, Tobias Burnus wrote:
I installed / updated all modules [takes w hole day to download] and the
problem is now in the windows manager.
>For a better font quality you simply need to install the microsoft true
>type fonts by using /usr/X11R6/bin/fetchmsttfonts. (Check that
>/etc/X11/XF86Config contains FontPath
>"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype"). The advantage is that this is a
>scalable font (there are tons of bitmap fonts) and that with
>qt-experimental (I think the packages is called like this) all Qt
>applications can use antialising for fonts (XFree86 rendering
>extention).
aha, i will look into that ! this also brings up the lucida again: maybe
it's worth to look into making a nice setup for them, since they are in
linux as well as windows
right distribution: RedHat, SuSE or Debian. I think for you Hans, Debias
>wouldn't be the best choice since it is an "expert" distribution ;-)
ah, that would make me an expert -)
Let me know what linux you will choose!
>mc is a kind of Norton Commander, but I think Hans is not that fast
>confused ;-)
-) BTW, on windows i use 4dos/4NT; going back to command.com is then a
nightmare
> > Yes, they should. Most likely cause: incorrect (read: partial) update to
> > Xfree4.
>So think I.
one thing i found out is that after an install, you need to wait an hour to
let the background jobs finish; suse launches them late and some of their
results are needed !
> Do you get any kind of error when you start X?
>You can also look at /var/log/XFree86.0.log
indeed, and there it now looks ok,
Hans
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