Re: How to get pretty fonts?

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

James Hosken wrote:
> Alf Werder wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 20:41, Joris Huizer wrote:
> >
> > > Hello everybody,
> > >
> > > I did a downgrade to debian/stable - after a knoppix harddisc a few 
> > > weeks ago (which is a mix of stable and testing)
> > >
> > > However, right now the fonts in mozilla are ugly - they used to be 
> > > much better and I'd want to get those fonts back; Because I don't 
> > > like the mozilla mail client in 1.0 (it lacks message filtering) I 
> > > downloaded the new mozilla 1.5 for now; However, the fonts are still 
> > > the same
> > > Anyway - how can I get the better fonts back? What packages do I need ?
> >
> >
> >
> > Install mozilla-xft.
> >
> > -alf
>
>
>
> I have apt-cached search mozilla-xft
> but it doesn't find any thing, I've searched for mozzila and xft as well 
> with out luck.
>
> Where do I need to look?
>
> James

deb 
http://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/mirrors.evilgeniuses.org.uk/debian/backports/woody/ 
gnome2.2/

in your /etc/apt/sources.list

and you can either apt-get install mozilla-xft, but that is version 1.2, 
so you would be better to apt-get install libxft2 libxft-dev and then get:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.6b/mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-1.6b.tar.gz
then put these lines in ./mozconfig in the /mozilla dir:
	    ac_add_options --enable-default-mozilla-five-home=/opt/mozilla
	    ac_add_options --with-x
	    mk_add_options MOZ_CVS_FLAGS="-q -z 9"
	    ac_add_options --enable-crypto
	    ac_add_options --enable-xft
	    ac_add_options --enable-gtk
	    ac_add_options --disable-jsd
	    ac_add_options --disable-accessibility
	    ac_add_options --disable-tests
	    ac_add_options --disable-debug
	    ac_add_options --enable-optimize=-O3
	    ac_add_options --disable-dtd-debug
	    ac_add_options --disable-logging
	    ac_add_options --enable-reorder
	    ac_add_options --enable-strip
	    ac_add_options --enable-elf-dynstr-gc
	    ac_add_options --enable-cpp-rtti
	    ac_add_options --enable-extensions=all
	    ac_add_options --disable-svg
	
and run ./configure.
After that run make and it will cook for 2 or 3 hours. Then you have an 
xft enabled most recent mozilla. Beautiful! But on Woody you will have this:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=228480
which may or may not affect you, depending on how you use Mozilla.

Hugo