Re: Ugly Fonts
On Tuesday 05 Mar 2002 12:40 pm, Patrick Kirk wrote:
>
> XFree86 Version 4.1.0.1 / X Window System
>
> Google led me to an article where xfstt was mentioned. Apt-get
> installed it. Also added the 7101 lie to XF86Config. Made no
> difference. Rebooted and now instead of staring at horrible spidery
> fonts I have nece clear ones.
>
You only need to restart the xserver for any configuration changes to take
effect, no need to reboot. Ctrl-Alt-Backspace normally does the job.
> Windows still does a lot better jon on www.theregister.com and it shows
> them as a lot larger. If there's an obvious thing I need to know to
> improve on this please let me know.
This is probably a matter of configuring the fonts your browser uses. Send me
your latest XF86Config-4 anyway, I'll take a look. One other thing, did you
prepare your truetype directory yourself or did you use package msttcorefonts
? Can you display truetype fonts now ?
Simon Hepburn.
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