This one time, at band camp, Bill Moseley said:
> Can someone that likes their font setup, and has msttcorefonts and XFree86
> 4.2.1 post their "Files" section of XF86Config-4?
>
> I finally took some time tonight to look at my fonts. One of my problems
> was that many applications were using the "comic sans ms" font.
>
> Turned out the order of my FontPath entries was the problem, although not
> the complete solution.
>
> I trimmed down my fonts to just this:
>
> $ xset q | grep font
> /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled
>
> This next setting causes many applications to use the comic sans ms font:
>
> $ xset +fp /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType
>
> Where this next one causes less of a problem, but Opera still uses comic
> sans ms for menus, labels and buttons. Argh.
>
> $ xset +fp /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType
>
> Fonts have been driving me crazy -- I've posted a number of times about my
> troubles. Even with only one font path of
>
> /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled
>
> Opera and Mozilla (1.2.1) show web pages very differently. Some pages,
> like Google results are almost hard to read. And adding the TrueType font
> path above doesn't seem to make any difference on web pages. With only
> one font path listed I'm not sure where those browsers are getting their
> fonts.
>
> With that one font path this is what I see:
>
> http://hank.org/images/fonts5.png
>
> Are those using AA fonts? I do not have a XftConfig file installed, so
> I'm unclear why they look like that.
>
> Is it even possible to get fonts under X to look as good as they do in
> Windows?
Better, really.
Section "Files"
# FontPath "unix/:7110" # local font server
# if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/CID"
EndSection
steve:~$ dpkg -l xserver-xfree86
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii xserver-xfree8 4.2.1-4 the XFree86 X server
steve:~$ dpkg -l msttcorefonts
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii msttcorefonts 1.1.2 Installer for Microsoft TrueType core fonts
This is sid, mind you, and I'm usng Gnome2, which does a lot of it's own
font-rendering with libxft2, I believe, so I'm not sure this will
translate for Icewm. The browser thing is, I think, a config issue -
most browsers allow you to choose your default fonts for display, and it
looks like you just never have - try setting it to something you like,
and go from there.
HTH,
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