Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla-bin port not rendering correctly
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 10:58:04AM -0700, Rob wrote I have never seen this behavior except with the Gentoo mozilla-bin port. It is not rendering text correctly. I have tried Arial Truetype font and ordinary fonts. What is does is print the letters of text with huge spaces between them. It does not occur on all web pages, but enough to be really annoying. I do not know if this is a port problem or a basic mozilla problem. Has any one else seen this? the mozilla version is 1.7.12 Problem === I had the exact same problem in Firefox. What's happening is that you are setting up *YOUR* fonts, but the browser is using *THE WEBPAGE'S* fonts, so what you do has no effect. Solution The Mozilla menu sequence might be slightly different. In Firefox, it was as follows... Edit Preferences General Fonts Colors Near the bottom of the Fonts Colors tab, check the option... Always use my: [X] Fonts Now *YOUR* font choices should take effect. -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] An infinite number of monkeys pounding away on keyboards will eventually produce a report showing that Windows is more secure, and has a lower TCO, than linux. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla-bin port not rendering correctly/ solved
Walter Dnes wrote: On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 10:58:04AM -0700, Rob wrote I have never seen this behavior except with the Gentoo mozilla-bin port. It is not rendering text correctly. I have tried Arial Truetype font and ordinary fonts. What is does is print the letters of text with huge spaces between them. It does not occur on all web pages, but enough to be really annoying. I do not know if this is a port problem or a basic mozilla problem. Has any one else seen this? the mozilla version is 1.7.12 Problem === I had the exact same problem in Firefox. What's happening is that you are setting up *YOUR* fonts, but the browser is using *THE WEBPAGE'S* fonts, so what you do has no effect. Solution The Mozilla menu sequence might be slightly different. In Firefox, it was as follows... Edit Preferences General Fonts Colors Near the bottom of the Fonts Colors tab, check the option... Always use my: [X] Fonts Now *YOUR* font choices should take effect. Actually, the solution for me was to get rid of the mozilla-bin port and compile it from scratch. Evidently mozilla-bin has some integration problems with Xorg, etc. Then it doesn't matter what that Allow documents to use other fonts setting is. My test web page was www.msnbc.com. Mozilla-bin totally barfs on this page, whereas the compiled version renders everything correctly. I only have one problem left. Windowmaker starts up (when I am just a regular user) then aborts because it can't find one of the TrueType fonts. That font directory is set in xorg.conf, but I am afraid the problem is in the /etc/fonts directory. I just don't have enough experience working with those config files to get TrueType fonts set up right. But I have made good progress! I am happy about that. Rob. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Mozilla-bin port not rendering correctly
I have never seen this behavior except with the Gentoo mozilla-bin port. It is not rendering text correctly. I have tried Arial Truetype font and ordinary fonts. What is does is print the letters of text with huge spaces between them. It does not occur on all web pages, but enough to be really annoying. I do not know if this is a port problem or a basic mozilla problem. Has any one else seen this? the mozilla version is 1.7.12 Thanks, Rob. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla-bin port not rendering correctly
Hi, Have a look at the wiki, see if it can tame your font issues, did mine: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Xorg_and_Fonts Cheers On 14/10/05, Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have never seen this behavior except with the Gentoo mozilla-bin port. It is not rendering text correctly. I have tried Arial Truetype font and ordinary fonts. What is does is print the letters of text with huge spaces between them. It does not occur on all web pages, but enough to be really annoying. I do not know if this is a port problem or a basic mozilla problem. Has any one else seen this? the mozilla version is 1.7.12 Thanks, Rob. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla-bin port not rendering correctly/ HOWTO disaster
znx wrote: Hi, Have a look at the wiki, see if it can tame your font issues, did mine: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Xorg_and_Fonts Cheers On 14/10/05, Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have never seen this behavior except with the Gentoo mozilla-bin port. It is not rendering text correctly. I have tried Arial Truetype font and ordinary fonts. What is does is print the letters of text with huge spaces between them. It does not occur on all web pages, but enough to be really annoying. I do not know if this is a port problem or a basic mozilla problem. Has any one else seen this? the mozilla version is 1.7.12 Thanks, Rob. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Well, after attempting to use the HOWTO Xorg and Fonts, I am worse off than when I started. Web pages still do not render. I had to hack the Windowmaker config files so that it would use fonts that it could find. Otherwise it would abort. The previous fonts that it used are no longer accessible. I have no idea where they are. Now I can't use the Windowmaker config utility as a regular user as I suppose it can no longer find it. I have no idea why that would be happening. I do not understand why it now takes 12 pages of modifications just to have fonts render correctly. I have installed Gentoo in the past and everything just worked. No modifications of anything had to be performed. This is really a huge step backwards. I am pretty certain that the last installation of Gentoo I did used Xorg. I am tempted to just reinstall everything. Rob -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
