Re: Xorg 7.0 and ATI working!
On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 12:06:53 -0700
Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com> wrote:
> Liam O'Toole wrote:
> > On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 23:39:52 -0700
> > Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Bill Wohler wrote:
> >
> > [SNIP]
> >
> >>> 2. The courier fonts were ugly.
> >>>
> >>> The fix was to rebuild xorg.conf (I'm assuming with a proper font
> >>> path). I did not have to resort to the workaround presented in
> >>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=367593
> >> some of my fonts look prety ugly too, how did you figure out
> >> what the proper font path is? Whatever was there after
> >> dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg?
> >>
> >> TIA,
> >>
> >> erik
> >>
> >
> > Hi again, Erik.
> >
> > Fonts are looking pretty good here (deja-vu and msttcorefonts, with
> > bitmap fonts enabled too). What problems are you having?
>
>
> pretty much everything looks ok except of fonts in fvwm - window
> titles, menus, fonts in pager.
>
> The menu and window titles look like really badly resized bitmap
> fonts (before xorg 7 upgrade they looked ok)
>
> this is the font specified in fvwm config:
>
> default: -adobe-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-12-*
> menu: -adobe-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-12-*
>
> the font in pager is too small for any font to appear good but I
> think it's somewhat worse than before
>
> pager font: -*-times-medium-r-*-*-*-80-*-*-*-*-*-*
>
> tried these in xfontsel and they still look pretty bad even though
> they don't have exactly same look as in fvwm (and there's no 80 size
> for times, only 120)
>
> these look like pretty common fonts, not sure what happened, they
> are not missing, just ugly.
>
> btw what's deja-vu? I assume it's a font or set of fonts but
> apt-cache found nothing
>
> thanks,
>
> erik
>
>
I know next to nothing about fvwm, but I see that it depends on
freetype and fontconfig. You could try substituting the ugly bitmap
fonts for pretty truetype ones, e.g., in ~/.fonts.conf:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
<match target="pattern">
<test name="family">
<string>Helvetica</string>
</test>
<edit name="family" mode="assign">
<string>sans-serif</string>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="pattern">
<test name="family">
<string>Times</string>
</test>
<edit name="family" mode="assign">
<string>serif</string>
</edit>
</match>
</fontconfig>
That of course assumes that fvwm respects such client-side font
settings at all.
The deja-vu package is ttf-dejavu. Basically it's just an extension of
the more famous bitstream fonts.
--
Liam
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