RE: tiny font fix (kinda)

[corner chello at]

I gave up on garnome for now and reinstalled the gnome from slackware-9.0.  I
could only make it work with XFT off and I don't really know what that does. 
Thanks for the help.


Tom

On 31-Mar-2003 Mike Wyer wrote:
> I remember using misc-fixed for a while, as that doesn't get anti-aliased
> and so can be used anyway. I also removed my font cache at one point, but
> I didn't see any immediate effect.
> 
> Clearing .gconf put me in a worse position than I started at, so I
> restored my previous one.
> 
> <rant>
> BTW this issue really sucks, and there is no good analysis of it anywhere
> in the gnome mailing lists, pango sites, gdk docs, or anywhere in fact.
> I'm sure a lot of the behind-the-scenes stuff in GNOME is improving, but
> all I see is Havoc Pennington ripping vital functionality out of my window
> manager in the name of consistency and "useability", while someone else
> goes and breaks font support.
> 
> I would love to put together a patch that fixed the problem, but it's
> pretty much impossible to pin down to a specific part of gnome without
> participation from all the potential culprits. Pango is looking pretty
> damn suspicious right now, though.
> </rant>
> 
> Ok, I found my rattle again :)
> 
> Sorry I can't be more help- I just know it definitely started working with
> XFT off, while picking "sans" as the default in the font selection dialog.
> 
> Cheers,
> Mike
> 
> On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 corner chello at wrote:
> 
>> You mean to get readable fonts in the boxes at the bottom of the font
>> selection
>> window.  I tried quite a few with no luck.  Which font did you pick? Or what
>> else might you have done?
>>
>> Tom Corner
>>
>> On 27-Mar-2003 Mike Wyer wrote:
>> > I see a bunch of people with the 1-pixel font problem. I have no idea what
>> > the root cause is, but the following procedure cleared it up for me:
>> >
>> > Turn off GDK_USE_XFT (in the garnome startup script)
>> >
>> > Startup garnome, go to the Application_Settings->font dialog.
>> > Pick a different application font until the anti-alias example
>> > blocks are readable.
>> >
>> > turn GDK_USE_XFT back on again
>> >
>> > I'm guessing that the format of some of the font options have changed, but
>> > this is the only way I could find it. It may be that one of the other
>> > desperate measures I went through actually did the trick, but this is
>> > worth a go if you can't read anything :)
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > Mike
>> > --
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>> >
>> >     "I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my Grandfather...
>> >   ... not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car"
>> >
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>>
> 
> -- 
> Mike Wyer     <mike wyer org>     www.wyer.org/mike     07974 254007
> 
>     "I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my Grandfather...
>   ... not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car"
> 

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