Re: f15 and fonts

2011-05-05 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 05/05/2011 10:29 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Thu, 05 May 2011 09:52:38 -0700 > Adam Williamson wrote: > >> Apparently Firefox will respect configuration set >> in /etc/X11/Xresources > That's totally strange. I thought every gui toolkit > in the universe had utterly abandoned the old X > resourc

Re: f15 and fonts

2011-05-05 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 05 May 2011 09:52:38 -0700 Adam Williamson wrote: > Apparently Firefox will respect configuration set > in /etc/X11/Xresources That's totally strange. I thought every gui toolkit in the universe had utterly abandoned the old X resource stuff. -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject

Re: f15 and fonts

2011-05-05 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2011-05-01 at 13:09 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Sun, 1 May 2011 16:55:29 + (UTC) > BeartoothHOS wrote: > > > Setting up Install Process > > No package gnome-tweak-tool available. > > Maybe your repos are busted or something? I > was able to do a yum install gnome-tweak-tool > (but

Re: f15 and fonts

2011-05-01 Thread BeartoothHOS
On Sun, 01 May 2011 13:09:08 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: [] > You are trying this on fedora 15, right? Aaarrgghhh! My face is red. I'm still under the save session bug; but I just tried it under ssh over my LAN, and it ran. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clue

Re: f15 and fonts

2011-05-01 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 05/01/2011 10:25 PM, BeartoothHOS wrote: > On Sun, 01 May 2011 07:36:31 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > >> On 05/01/2011 06:23 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: >>> Meanwhile, the gnome-font-properties or gnome-appearance apps seem to >>> have vanished from the face of f15, so I can't play with any of the >

Re: f15 and fonts

2011-05-01 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 1 May 2011 16:55:29 + (UTC) BeartoothHOS wrote: > Setting up Install Process > No package gnome-tweak-tool available. Maybe your repos are busted or something? I was able to do a yum install gnome-tweak-tool (but I couldn't detect any change in firefox font rendering after making the

Re: f15 and fonts

2011-05-01 Thread BeartoothHOS
On Sun, 01 May 2011 07:36:31 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 05/01/2011 06:23 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: >> Meanwhile, the gnome-font-properties or gnome-appearance apps seem to >> have vanished from the face of f15, so I can't play with any of the >> font setting I used to be able to play with to i

Re: f15 and fonts

2011-05-01 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 05/01/2011 08:05 AM, Genes MailLists wrote: > 1) Implicit in his post - as I read it - was please go back to f14 > fonts - he didnt like the change as he saw it. Or perhaps their was > another problem which make his fonts appear 'thin'. I am not going to assume that going back to previous fon

Re: f15 and fonts

2011-04-30 Thread Bob Cochran
After reading Tom's post, and recalling my own experience with fonts on Fedora, I agree with him that they can can be a very frustrating experience. Tom seems to know a bit more than I do about fonts, and the apps needed to adjust them. He has given some of his time and hardware resources to te

Re: f15 and fonts

2011-04-30 Thread Genes MailLists
On 04/30/2011 10:06 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 05/01/2011 06:23 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: >> Meanwhile, the gnome-font-properties or gnome-appearance >> apps seem to have vanished from the face of f15, so I can't >> play with any of the font setting I used to be able to >> play with to influence t

Re: f15 and fonts

2011-04-30 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 05/01/2011 06:23 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > Meanwhile, the gnome-font-properties or gnome-appearance > apps seem to have vanished from the face of f15, so I can't > play with any of the font setting I used to be able to > play with to influence the rendering. Use gnome-tweak-tool. If you have su

f15 and fonts

2011-04-30 Thread Tom Horsley
I'm continuing to play with f15 beta, and now I'm trying to keep from getting a headache. Virtually all the fonts I'm seeing look like they were written with the sharpest thinnest pen anyone could find. They are totally spindly and impossible to read without much squinting. Meanwhile, the gnome-fo