Re: my font suddently become very ugly

[Adam C Powell IV <hazelsct@mit.edu>]

Shao Zhang wrote:

> Howard Mann [howardm@xmission.com] wrote:
> > Shao Zhang wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >         A couple days ago, my font is just suddently become very ugly.
> > >         I orginially thought it was the fvwm problem, then I found that
> > >         all other window's manager have the same problem.
> > >
> >
> > I suggest you use True Type fonts utilizing the " xfstt" font server.
>
>         Installing xfstt did not help at all. I have both xfs and xfstt
>         running.
>
>         [11:43|pts/1]shao@shao % xlsfonts| grep ttf |h
>         -ttf-algerian-medium-r-normal-regular-0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
>         -ttf-arial black-medium-r-normal-regular-0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
>         -ttf-arial narrow-bold-i-normal-bold italic-0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
>         -ttf-arial narrow-bold-r-normal-bold-0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
>         -ttf-arial narrow-medium-i-normal-italic-0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
>         -ttf-arial narrow-medium-r-normal-regular-0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
>         -ttf-arial rounded mt bold-bold-r-normal-bold-0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
>         -ttf-arial-bold-i-normal-bold italic-0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
>         -ttf-arial-bold-r-normal-bold-0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
>         -ttf-arial-medium-i-normal-italic-0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
>
>
>         Here is the relevant entries in the /etc/X11/XFConfig file:
>
>     FontPath   "unix/:7101"
>     FontPath   "unix/:7100"
>     FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
>     FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
>     FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
>     FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
>     FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
>     FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/chinese/:unscaled"
>     FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/chinese/"

I have the Speedo and Type1 between 100dpi:unscaled and 100dpi, so if the correct
size is not found in 100dpi unscaled it will look in type1 *before* trying to scale
100dpi.

I've noticed also there are some apps which really want to use 75dpi fonts.
Enlightenment seems to be this way, when I didn't have 75dpi fonts the title bars
were quite ugly and the tooltips were empty!  Installing 75dpi helped.

Zeen,

-Adam P.