On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 10:11:09PM +0800, Hongzheng Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Subject: firefox: Bold cjk bitmap fonts usually flicker > Package: firefox > Version: 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.3-2 > Severity: normal > > Hi, > > Due to the current limitations of fontconfig system in Debian, the > users with CJK locales cannot get bold fonts directly from TTF fonts. > Therefore, bitmap fonts are still not a bad choice. For example, > WenQuanYi bitmap song font (xfonts-wqy) is such a bitmap font. > > Unfortunately, I found the firefox built by Debian sid cannot work > well with bitmap fonts. When the fonts are set to bitmap font, such > as WenQuanYi, the hyperlink texts with bold face usually flicker as > mouse pass through them. It is the case even for pure English > hyperlinks, say, the bug reports page of Debian if the fonts of > western are set to Bitmap fonts. > > In order to confirm it is Debian related problem, I also tested the > official firefox 1.5 and alpha 2.0 from Mozilla. Both of them works > well without this problem.
Try running your debian firefox with MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
