Thank you Nathan, It was indeed the anti-aliasing and now things are starting to get legible again.
Regards, Shri On Mon, 2001-12-03 at 21:03, Nathan Weston wrote: > You probably have font anti-aliasing turned on... I believe this limits your > selection of fonts to those for which AA works. > > Or, you may not have specified all of your font directories in your > /etc/X11/XftConfig > > Try adding "dir" lines to XftConfig, turning off AA (Control > Center->Look&Feel->Fonts), or getting more truetype fonts (apt-get install > msttcorefonts). > > Good luck, > Nathan >