On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 02:50:56PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I have been doing a lot of reading on de-uglifying fonts on X. I have > installed truetype fonts, worked on xfs, tried different configurations in my > applications. > > In the end it worked quite well, but nowhere near to what I was used to on > that Other System. I was running 1280x1024 on my 19 inch monitor. Just for > the heck of it I tried 1600x1200. Automagically all my fonts are > now perfect. In fact browsing looks at least as good as IE/Mozilla on Win. > > The refresh rate of my screen is now a lot less. This is the only trade-off. > > If I decide that the higher refresh rate is more important than the 1600x1200 > refresh rate and go back to 1280x1024, I would like my fonts to stay the > same. Does anyone know a way to do this? I don't > want to manually change the order of all my fonts available to xfs or change > any individual application but rather configure X and be done. Is this > possible? > > I won't get used to the combination of the two words: Linux and > automagically, I promise. But being rather new to the system, I have a lot to > learn, install and configure. Working on fonts is just not sexy enough > for me ;). > > Bob >
An oft-repated suggestion - if you are using X > version 4 you don't need a font server. You need to load the various modules for the types of fonts you want - freetype, speedo, type1 etc. I think you can find discussion threads on this if you can search the archives. My fonts work just as good as the Other System. Of course, I run 1024x768 so maybe at a higher res the difference, if any, is more apparent. A bit of advice from my own sufferings as a newbie: read up on the theory, and whatever other documentation you can lay your hands on. You will save yourself a lot of headbanging. I still remember the time when I was a new user, and I was trying to get sound support to work on an old SB card. I strugged 16 hours, doing the usual Window-ish things - installing/ uninstalling, rebooting, everything short of banging on the keyboard. Then I sat down to read up on the documentation: it was a simple IRQ setting. Two minutes and two line-edits later I was a much wiser man. Good luck, Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
