On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 12:06:53 -0700 Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Liam O'Toole wrote: > > On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 23:39:52 -0700 > > Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
