Ben Burton writes:
> with konsole, etc.). This is what I believe is more difficult; I
> don't see that we can really require that every user has the M$
> font Courier New, or Andale Mono or whatever.
it _is_ out of Debian's character to require use of non-free things.
How about if debian (or
> > I think half the problem here is that X cannot provide a good
> > default XftConfig since it depends on what Type1/TT fonts you have
> > installed, and there's no guarantee that any two users have any two
> > such fonts in common.
>
> but it is possible to do other neat things. Debian cou
Ben Burton writes:
> I think half the problem here is that X cannot provide a good
> default XftConfig since it depends on what Type1/TT fonts you have
> installed, and there's no guarantee that any two users have any two
> such fonts in common.
but it is possible to do other neat things. D
On Friday 02 March 2001 17:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Well it was totally unuseable for me until I tweaked the XftConfig file. I
> also installed an extra font, monotype.ttf. I'm not sure if my XftConfig
> will make things work now without that font; since I don't have an
> AA-enabled konsole
> so does this mean there's no objections to me re-enabling AA support in
> konsole?
No objections from me. :) But like Tim, I think it would be good to provide
documentation for the non-debian-kde reader for how to get konsole working
decently.
One suggestion might be to put the information
> On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 09:42:07PM -0600, Ben Burton wrote:
> >
> > > Anyways, this is my XftConfig file, cobbled together from
> bits, not that I
> > > really understand what it exactly means :-)
> >
> > You are truly wonderful..! - I now have KDE using antialiased
> fixed-width
> > fonts.
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 09:42:07PM -0600, Ben Burton wrote:
>
> > Anyways, this is my XftConfig file, cobbled together from bits, not that I
> > really understand what it exactly means :-)
>
> You are truly wonderful..! - I now have KDE using antialiased fixed-width
> fonts. And I even think I
> Anyways, this is my XftConfig file, cobbled together from bits, not that I
> really understand what it exactly means :-)
You are truly wonderful..! - I now have KDE using antialiased fixed-width
fonts. And I even think I have half an understanding of how that XftConfig
works now.. :)
Grazie
I removed that monotype.ttf font from my configuration, and the Fonts
controlpanel still displays nice fixed courier fonts now in the fixed font
setting.
So I do believe that the config file I posted in my previous e-mail works.
If anyone can pass me a .deb of an AA-enabled konsole, I'd be more
> > > I noticed that AA fonts have been disabled in the latest
> uploads of
> > > KDE2.1, for reason that Konsole has problems with them.
> >
> > I did that because upstream stated that it did not handle AA
> properly. But
> > since either way it's not handled properly I'll take that patch
>
s the only font
related issue I've found since upgrading. I'm running potato, all stable,
still with xfree86 3.3.6
- Original Message -
From: "Ben Burton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 8:58 AM
Subject: Re: Konsole & AA fonts
>
>
> > I noticed that AA fonts have been disabled in the latest uploads of
> > KDE2.1, for reason that Konsole has problems with them.
>
> I did that because upstream stated that it did not handle AA properly. But
> since either way it's not handled properly I'll take that patch out and
> re-enable
> I noticed that AA fonts have been disabled in the latest uploads of KDE2.1,
> for reason that Konsole has problems with them.
>
well...in konsole it was disabled...but I think that's what you meant...
I did that because upstream stated that it did not handle AA properly. But
since either way
Hello,
I noticed that AA fonts have been disabled in the latest uploads of KDE2.1, for
reason that Konsole has problems with them.
In my experience, Konsole doesn't have any problems with AA fonts, it just has
a problem with non-fixed width fonts.
And with AA fonts enabled, Konsole gets a prob
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