Re: some fonts in kde / iceweasel not anti-aliased - but not all

[Adam Hardy <adam.ant@cyberspaceroad.com>]

Florian Kulzer on 23/04/07 20:40, wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 20:04:58 +0100, Adam Hardy wrote:
> > Got a wierd problem that I can't find any viable solution for in google. I 
> > set up a new machine with etch, running kde and iceweasel.
> >
> > Most of the main fonts are not anti-aliased in iceweasel. I downloaded 
> > firefox and tried that, same result.
> >
> > The funny thing is that I am running etch on another machine and I upgraded 
> > everything to the same level, but it's not affected.
> >
> > Does anyone else here know what the problem could be?
>
> Compare the fontconfig settings on the two machines, for example by
> running this command on each system:
>
> awk '/fontconfig/,/^$/' /var/cache/debconf/config.dat
>
> My guess is that the "enable_bitmaps" setting is responsible. You can
> change all the settings by running "dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config".
> (Restart X after that to be sure.)

Hmm. Well that enable_bitmaps setting was actually the same. But I reconfigured 
it to 'false' and it worked, so you guessed well.

This is definitely going down on my installation instructions doc.

Thanks alot


Adam

ps nice awk command!