Paul Gress wrote:
> Paul Gress wrote:
>> Is it just me. I upgraded to b129 (from 128a), now my fonts look
>> unacceptable in Firefox and Thunderbird only. The rest of the OS is
>> good. When I go to "System > Preferences > Appearance > Fonts" then
>> click on "Details", Making any changes to the font rendering,
>> smoothing, LCD order or anything will change the appearance everywhere
>> except Firefox and Thunderbird. Is this a bug? Can it get fixed some
>> time soon?
>>
> Responding to myself for others. Never mind I fixed it. In the not to
> long ago past there were people who complained that the font rendering
> was terrible in b128a. Me, I never said a thing, I though mine was
> absolutely great. After updating to b129 it appears I was one to
> complain. From memory, I believe it was Alan Coopersmith who stated to
> remove all the linked "10-......" entries in /etc/fonts/conf.d. For me
> it was just simply add the links back, all is fine for me now. Below is
> what worked for me:
>
> bash-4.0$ cd /etc/fonts/conf.d
> bash-4.0$ ls -al 10*
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 38 Dec 13 01:24 10-autohint.conf
> -> /etc/fonts/conf.avail/10-autohint.conf
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 43 Dec 13 01:24
> 10-sub-pixel-bgr.conf -> /etc/fonts/conf.avail/10-sub-pixel-bgr.conf
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 43 Dec 13 01:24
> 10-sub-pixel-rgb.conf -> /etc/fonts/conf.avail/10-sub-pixel-rgb.conf
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 44 Dec 13 01:24
> 10-sub-pixel-vbgr.conf -> /etc/fonts/conf.avail/10-sub-pixel-vbgr.conf
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 44 Dec 13 01:24
> 10-sub-pixel-vrgb.conf -> /etc/fonts/conf.avail/10-sub-pixel-vrgb.conf
We removed them because it didn't make sense to have all of them present,
since they give conflicting settings - "My pixels are ordered Blue/Green/Red
left-to-right, and Red/Green/Blue left-to-right, and Blue/Green/Red top to
bottom and Red/Green/Blue top to bottom." - and the default configuration
shouldn't assume which is right for your hardware. Unless your monitor is
possessed such that it's head is spinning constantly at a high speed, all
four cannot be true simultaneously. You should pick the subset that's
right for your system if you want to customize things with fonts.conf files.
--
-Alan Coopersmith- [email protected]
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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