KDE 3 "Fuzzy" fonts

james · Posted: Fri May 31, 2002 1:13 am Post subject: KDE 3 "Fuzzy" fonts

Hi All.

All my fonts are fuzzzy on KDE. Anti Aliasing doesn't help.

xdyinfo + DPI 81x81. How to change this? If it would help.

Thx,

J
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mksoft · l33t Joined: 28 May 2002 Posts: 844

james · Posted: Fri May 31, 2002 12:20 pm Post subject:

Thanks, I'll give a try.
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mksoft · l33t Joined: 28 May 2002 Posts: 844

If you'll use it, please let me know how it goes.
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kode54 · n00b Joined: 16 May 2002 Posts: 42

Since there are USE flags for MMX and NCurses, I might suggest applying separate USE flag checks for those. Not sure about zlib or crypt, probably part of the system base install.

mksoft · l33t Joined: 28 May 2002 Posts: 844

Just got the mail from bugzilla. xfree-4.2.0-r11 ebuild builds against freetype with hinting and removes xft hack

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It also checks USE flags for mmx among others. Might want to give it a try.
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c_kuzmanic · Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2002 4:58 am Post subject:

I just unmasked xfree-4.2.0-r11 and emerged it. Result: Xfree resource intensive apps start and run much faster, and fonts are much, much cleaner than before, especially in Mozilla and Konqueror.

kibab · Guest

I just tried to install Xfree86 by doing emerge x11-base/xfree and then it went ahead and grabbed Xfree86-4.2.0-r9 among others. It died in the linking stage (I don't remember exactly what the error was, I did another emerge and it didn't update the file to Xfree86-4.2.0-r11 (that you just mentioned) it's recompiling now so we'll see if I get the same error. If so I'll post it.

So, considering I just did the emerge, how do I grab the XFree86-4.2.0-r11? Or, as you put it, how do I "unmask" it?

Also, how do I specify options that I want packages compiled with? Say, for example, I wanted to build qt with the mysql module? I know USE flags come into play somewhere, but I'm not entirely sure yet.

<hanging head> I suppose now that i got stage3 installed, I should sit down and read the portage/emerge instructions shouldn't I

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mksoft · l33t Joined: 28 May 2002 Posts: 844

you need to edit packages.mask mask file located at:
/usr/portage/profiles/package.mask

Comment out the packages you want to unmask and emerge them.
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MX · Guest

emerging -r11 now

in netscape and a few other browsers, the fonts are totally unreadable (i.e. helvetica and such (excuse spelling)) -- kde3 fonts (basically TTF stuff like Trebuct MS) are beautiful.

How to get mozilla and others to use these fonts??? That kde3 now has available?

jay · l33t Joined: 08 May 2002 Posts: 980

I compiled Xfree -r9 withe the USE variables: truetype and freetype - works fine except for mozilla 1.0 which is linked against the r11.
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