Re: Bright and Esco themes - how to install?

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

Hmm, I don't know much about fonts and servers I'm afraid, cc'ing Brian
Cameron here at Sun who may be able to help you on that front.  

I would guess though that the reason the CDE fonts look a lot better
than your GNOME fonts is that Xsun on Solaris 7 doesn't support font
anti-aliasing.  This doesn't matter so much with the default CDE fonts
as they were designed specifically for use on a non-antialiased display,
but the default SJDS/GNOME fonts were not.

Regards,
Calum.


On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 00:52, Terje J. Hanssen wrote:

> Thank you for clarifying with the good howto procedure above. I got it 
> to work, and saved these themes with the new names Simple_Bright and 
> Simple_Esco, of course. At the same time using a solid background color, 
> turning off menu icons and splash screen, became better on the good old 
> SS1 as XDMCP client (diskless X terminal/station).
> 
> Fonts:
> To "extend this theme" to also include remote font rendering, the 
> SJDS/Gnome fonts looks some grainy and unclear displayed on the SS1 
> running the Xsun server and Solaris 7, (compared with CDE fonts).
> 
> Any suggestions how to get the font from a SJDS/Gnome session host 
> optimized on a SS1 X terminal?  E.g add SJDS as font server? Would this 
>   command entered on SS1 work?:
> /usr/openwin/bin/Xsun -nobanner -query -fp tcp:/SJDShost:7100 SJDShost
> 
> Possibly (howto) intall/access Gnome fonts on the Solaris OS server 
> instead, possibly change font type on SJDS?
> 
> More configuration background can be found in my post to another list:
> http://lists.gnome.org/archives/gnome-deployment-list/2004-February/msg00000.html
> 

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