Re: [osol-discuss] ClearType available for OpenSolaris?

2009-07-13 Thread andrew
Ive tried dabbling with preferences, but to no avail. Have anyone here succeeded getting the same font appearance as in the picture on the website I link to? You will never get it to look exactly like Windows XP - for that you would need another copy of Windows XP. :-) But if you want it to

Re: [osol-discuss] ClearType available for OpenSolaris?

2009-07-11 Thread Orvar Korvar
Ive tried dabbling with preferences, but to no avail. Have anyone here succeeded getting the same font appearance as in the picture on the website I link to? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] ClearType available for OpenSolaris?

2009-07-09 Thread Orvar Korvar
I dont get that. I can not find any Main Menu Main Menu All Applications System Tools Configuration Editor I only have three menus, Program, Places and System. There is no main menu. Anyway, In the picture above in the first post here, I think Windows XP looks far better. I havent been

Re: [osol-discuss] ClearType available for OpenSolaris?

2009-07-09 Thread Shawn Walker
Orvar Korvar wrote: I dont get that. I can not find any Main Menu Main Menu All Applications System Tools Configuration Editor I only have three menus, Program, Places and System. There is no main menu. System Preferences - Appearance - Fonts is what you're probably looking for.

Re: [osol-discuss] ClearType available for OpenSolaris?

2009-07-09 Thread Paul Gress
Orvar Korvar wrote: I dont get that. I can not find any Main Menu Main Menu All Applications System Tools Configuration Editor I only have three menus, Program, Places and System. There is no main menu. Anyway, In the picture above in the first post here, I think Windows XP looks far

Re: [osol-discuss] ClearType available for OpenSolaris?

2009-07-09 Thread Andrew Stormont
Or you could just type gconf-editor in the terminal :P 2009/7/9 Paul Gress pgr...@optonline.net Orvar Korvar wrote: I dont get that. I can not find any Main Menu Main Menu All Applications System Tools Configuration Editor I only have three menus, Program, Places and System. There is

Re: [osol-discuss] ClearType available for OpenSolaris?

2009-07-09 Thread William Bauer
Two things: 1. As already mentioned, right click on your desktop, choose Desktop Appearance, then Fonts, then choose Subpixel Smoothing. All the detail available in the config editor are also found here if you click Details. 2. Many web pages and applications use fonts from Microsoft that

[osol-discuss] ClearType available for OpenSolaris?

2009-06-25 Thread Orvar Korvar
When I boot into WinXP the fonts have always looked better than OpenSolaris. Also, WinXP in VirtualBox running on OpenSolaris shows better looks than OpenSolaris. It looks exactly like these two boxes at the top. The box to the left looks like OpenSolaris. The box to the right looks like WinXP.

Re: [osol-discuss] ClearType available for OpenSolaris?

2009-06-25 Thread Andrew Stormont
Have you had a look at the Fonts tab in System-Preferences-Appearance? 2009/6/25 Orvar Korvar knatte_fnatte_tja...@yahoo.com When I boot into WinXP the fonts have always looked better than OpenSolaris. Also, WinXP in VirtualBox running on OpenSolaris shows better looks than OpenSolaris. It