On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Pete Peterson wrote:
>
> Netscape
> The original Netscape that I got from the Netscape site appeared to
> work normally, at least to the best of my recollection, given that this
> was back in December. When the RedHat package appeared, I loaded that
> one and now Netscape appears to have problems with the Solaris X
> display as well. As an example, in RedHat's home page, the text to the
> left of the "Road Tour? appares as two short blue horizontal lines.
> The text to the right of "Wow!" appears as two longer thin blue lines,
> the text below 'Get Red Hat Linux..." appears as 4 assorted length blue
> lines, and the text below 'Red Hat In The News' appears as numerous
> (too lazy to count) various length blue lines. Under 'Recent News',
> the bold-underlined text appears, but the rest is just whitespace and
> blue lines.
>
> It appears that bold-underlined text is appearing correctly, non-bold
> underlined text displays only the underlines and plain vanilla text
> disappears entirely.
>
The netscape problem with the shruken text is a know problem with
Netscape/Solaris 2.6. Add the followin lines to your .xinitrc (or
.xsession):
xset +fp /usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/
xset fp rehash
This will bring the text back to atleast a readable font.
--Matthew
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