RE: tiny font fix (kinda)

[Mike Wyer <mike wyer org>]

On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 corner chello at wrote:

> 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.

GDK_USE_XFT just controls the anti-aliasing of text. It's perfectly safe
to leave it set to 0- previous gnome's didn't turn it on either. So
garnome without xft is probably still better than what you had before.
It's just a shame that KDE can get this right, but the gnome developers
can't.

I'm happy sticking with gnome (and garnome), but there are lessons to be
learned here.

Cheers,
Mike

>
> 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
> >> > --
> >> > 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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> >>
> >>
> >
> > --
> > 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"
> >
>
>

-- 
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"