Re: Disabling fuzzy fonts in galeon

[Michael Waters <stonin@rogers.com>]

On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 22:56 +0200, Paul Dwerryhouse wrote:
> For a while now, my installation of galeon (I'm still using version 1.2,
> under sid) has been rendering documents using some awful fonts that look
> fuzzy to me. They're also really slow.
> 
> Now, I don't know whether this is due to them being anti-aliased,
> scalable, truetype or whatever - I just want to get back to the original
> bitmapped fonts that I've been using up until recently.
> 
> Now there's plenty of documentation on how to use all the abovementioned
> font rendering, but virtually nothing on how to turn it off. These fuzzy
> fonts seem to appear by default on all QT and GTK applications - but not
> on any 'normal' X apps, such as xterm, etc.
> 
> I'll give two examples:
> 
> This is what I currently have: http://leapster.org/fonts1.png
> 
> This is what I'm trying to get: http://leapster.org/fonts2.png
> 
> Does anyone know how to fix this?

Hi,

You might try `dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig` and choose to allow
bitmapped fonts.  Or edit /etc/fonts/local.conf and uncomment or insert
the line: <dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts</dir>

Michael