Re: ugly fonts in thunderbird after sid upgrade

2017-10-17 Thread Pétùr
Le 17/10/2017 à 23:01, Ben Caradoc-Davies a écrit : > On 18/10/17 07:38, Michael Biebl wrote: >> Am 16.10.2017 um 22:50 schrieb Pétur Viljamson: >>> I have ugly fonts in thunderbird after updating my Debian sid today. >> It's the latest freetype upgrade causing this fo

Re: ugly fonts in thunderbird after sid upgrade

2017-10-17 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 18/10/17 07:38, Michael Biebl wrote: Am 16.10.2017 um 22:50 schrieb Pétur Viljamson: I have ugly fonts in thunderbird after updating my Debian sid today. It's the latest freetype upgrade causing this for users which use subpixel antialiasing. Thunderbird needs to be updated to cope wit

Re: ugly fonts in thunderbird after sid upgrade

2017-10-17 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 16.10.2017 um 22:50 schrieb Pétur Viljamson: > I have ugly fonts in thunderbird after updating my Debian sid today. It's the latest freetype upgrade causing this for users which use subpixel antialiasing. Thunderbird needs to be updated to cope with the changes in freetype 2.8.1 s

Re: ugly fonts in thunderbird after sid upgrade

2017-10-17 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 12:08:11PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > Is there an obvious place where this file is documented? 'man > environment' is the only thing that springs to my mind, barring Google > searches, and that turns up no entries. pam_env(8) You may also want to try "grep -r pam_env /et

Re: ugly fonts in thunderbird after sid upgrade

2017-10-17 Thread The Wanderer
On 2017-10-17 at 11:49, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 11:44:20AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > >> The /etc/environment setting only specifies the default >> environment; in order to make it take effect, you'd have to >> reboot. > > No, you just have to login again (or trigger wha

Re: ugly fonts in thunderbird after sid upgrade

2017-10-17 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 11:44:20AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > The /etc/environment setting only specifies the default environment; in > order to make it take effect, you'd have to reboot. No, you just have to login again (or trigger whatever else you're doing that uses the pam_env module). Unle

Re: ugly fonts in thunderbird after sid upgrade

2017-10-17 Thread The Wanderer
On 2017-10-17 at 11:29, Pétùr wrote: > Le 17/10/2017 à 05:00, Ben Caradoc-Davies a écrit : > >> I am using Xfce on sid and do not see any font corruption in >> thunderbird. What are your desktop font settings? >> >> I am using Liberation Sans for desktop and GUI, full hinting, and in >> /etc/envi

Re: ugly fonts in thunderbird after sid upgrade

2017-10-17 Thread Pétùr
Le 17/10/2017 à 05:00, Ben Caradoc-Davies a écrit : >> > > I am using Xfce on sid and do not see any font corruption in > thunderbird. What are your desktop font settings? > > I am using Liberation Sans for desktop and GUI, full hinting, and in > /etc/environment I have: > " Thanks for the answer

Re: ugly fonts in thunderbird after sid upgrade

2017-10-16 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 17/10/17 09:50, Pétur Viljamson wrote: I have ugly fonts in thunderbird after updating my Debian sid today. It happens both in the body of mail (received and sent) and in the interface. The problem is also present on my second computer with different hardware but some software (Xfce + Debian

ugly fonts in thunderbird after sid upgrade

2017-10-16 Thread Pétur Viljamson
I have ugly fonts in thunderbird after updating my Debian sid today. It happens both in the body of mail (received and sent) and in the interface. The problem is also present on my second computer with different hardware but some software (Xfce + Debian sid). This mail was rejected by the Debian

Re: Tkabber ugly fonts

2006-08-08 Thread cga2000
eir names (tkv, gitk) > > > have much nicer fonts. I'm running up to date unstable. > > > > > I don't use this program -- or anything jabber for that matter -- but > > I have a soft spot for fonts and "ugly fonts" usually get me going. > > >

Re: Tkabber ugly fonts

2006-08-08 Thread Petteri
; > > I don't use this program -- or anything jabber for that matter -- but > I have a soft spot for fonts and "ugly fonts" usually get me going. > > I think you need to take a look at /usr/share/doc/tkabber/README.gz > especially steps 3 (install) and 4 (configure). A

Re: Tkabber ugly fonts

2006-08-07 Thread cga2000
tips how can I get some nicer looking fonts? Don't know > if it is relevant, but other apps with tk in their names (tkv, gitk) > have much nicer fonts. I'm running up to date unstable. > I don't use this program -- or anything jabber for that matter -- but I have a soft spot

Tkabber ugly fonts

2006-08-07 Thread Petteri
Hello list! I'm using Tkabber for my jabber needs, but the fonts are really ugly. Here is picture how the Tkabber looks http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l162/petteri2/tkabber.png . Does anyone have any tips how can I get some nicer looking fonts? Don't know if it is relevant, but other apps with

Re: Ugly fonts on new KDE installation

2004-08-09 Thread Sean O'Dell
On Monday 09 August 2004 16:56, Sean O'Dell wrote: > I just installed Debian on a new computer here using the new installer, > then upgraded completely current to unstable. I installed the Tahoma > truetype font, but it looks really funky (fuzzy/uneven) in KDE. I use the > same font on my regular

Re: Ugly fonts on new KDE installation

2004-08-09 Thread Sean O'Dell
On Monday 09 August 2004 17:02, Thomas Adam wrote: > On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 04:56:30PM -0700, Sean O'Dell wrote: > > What could be working on my desktop system that's not working on the new > > machine to make Tahoma look nice and crisp? > > http://linuxgazette.net/100/adam.html > > perhaps? I th

Re: Ugly fonts on new KDE installation

2004-08-09 Thread Thomas Adam
On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 04:56:30PM -0700, Sean O'Dell wrote: > What could be working on my desktop system that's not working on the new > machine to make Tahoma look nice and crisp? http://linuxgazette.net/100/adam.html perhaps? -- Thomas Adam -- "Frankly, Mr. Shankly, since you ask. You are a

Ugly fonts on new KDE installation

2004-08-09 Thread Sean O'Dell
I just installed Debian on a new computer here using the new installer, then upgraded completely current to unstable. I installed the Tahoma truetype font, but it looks really funky (fuzzy/uneven) in KDE. I use the same font on my regular desktop and it looks nice and crisp. Both the new mach

Re: ugly fonts in gtk 1.2 apps

2003-12-22 Thread Toshiro
On Tuesday 23 December 2003 02:31, Paul William wrote: > try installing libgdkxft0 > > On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 12:13, Toshiro wrote: > > I'm running sid and all the old gtk apps (jpilot for example) have a very > > ugly set of fonts. Anybody know how to fix the fonts? Well, you already answered yo

Re: ugly fonts in gtk 1.2 apps

2003-12-22 Thread Paul William
try installing libgdkxft0 On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 12:13, Toshiro wrote: > I'm running sid and all the old gtk apps (jpilot for example) have a very ugly > set of fonts. Anybody know how to fix the fonts? > > Toshiro. > > > ADSL-Para estar las 24 horas en internet > http://www.internet.co

Re: ugly fonts in gtk 1.2 apps

2003-12-22 Thread Micha Feigin
> > P.S.: Don't forget to rebbot or restart Xserver an Xfontserver... > > Well, I did what you suggested, but I'm still having the same old and ugly > fonts, did you do something else in addition to defining GDK_USE_XFT? > > Toshiro. > Assuming you are not usin

Re: ugly fonts in gtk 1.2 apps

2003-12-22 Thread Julius Plenz
Toshiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, I did what you suggested, but I'm still having the same old and ugly > fonts, did you do something else in addition to defining GDK_USE_XFT? Did you do a Xserver-restart or a complete reboot? Additionally, I edited my ~/.gtkrc, now i

Re: ugly fonts in gtk 1.2 apps

2003-12-21 Thread Toshiro
ou have to use antialiased-fonts, so put > a "export GDK_USE_XFT='1'" in you ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bashrc > > HTH & Good Night > > Julius > > P.S.: Don't forget to rebbot or restart Xserver an Xfontserver... Well, I did what you suggested, but I

Re: ugly fonts in gtk 1.2 apps

2003-12-21 Thread Julius Plenz
Toshiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm running sid and all the old gtk apps (jpilot for example) have a very ugly > set of fonts. Anybody know how to fix the fonts? Well, I just solved this problem: You have to use antialiased-fonts, so put a "export GDK_USE_XFT='1'" in you ~/.bash_profile or

ugly fonts in gtk 1.2 apps

2003-12-21 Thread Toshiro
I'm running sid and all the old gtk apps (jpilot for example) have a very ugly set of fonts. Anybody know how to fix the fonts? Toshiro. ADSL-Para estar las 24 horas en internet http://www.internet.com.uy Tel. 707.42.52 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Ugly fonts in X11 after dist-upgrade to sarge

2003-08-26 Thread Stefan Waidele jun.
Hi all, I have woody installed and had good readable fonts in X11/KDE. Only Mozilla would us a font that was too big, but nice. Than I installed a set of packages required for a debian-course, and the fonts were just perfect! Even in mozilla. Just the right size and real sharp! After a dist-u

Re: ugly fonts in X apps (xclock & xbuffy)

2003-07-03 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Op do 03-07-2003, om 17:42 schreef nori heikkinen: > suddenly, my fonts in X are all weird. gtk stuff is still fine, but > xbuffy and xclock have been beaten with an ugly stick. i posted once > on this about 10 months ago[1], and didn't receive an answer ... but i > fixed it, and don't remember h

Re: ugly fonts in X apps (xclock & xbuffy)

2003-07-03 Thread nori heikkinen
on Thu, 03 Jul 2003 02:39:48PM -0400, Chris Metzler insinuated: > On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 11:42:34 -0400 > nori heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > suddenly, my fonts in X are all weird. gtk stuff is still fine, but > > xbuffy and xclock have been beaten with an ugly stick. i posted once > >

Re: ugly fonts in X apps (xclock & xbuffy)

2003-07-03 Thread Chris Metzler
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 11:42:34 -0400 nori heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > suddenly, my fonts in X are all weird. gtk stuff is still fine, but > xbuffy and xclock have been beaten with an ugly stick. i posted once > on this about 10 months ago[1], and didn't receive an answer ... but i > fix

ugly fonts in X apps (xclock & xbuffy)

2003-07-03 Thread nori heikkinen
suddenly, my fonts in X are all weird. gtk stuff is still fine, but xbuffy and xclock have been beaten with an ugly stick. i posted once on this about 10 months ago[1], and didn't receive an answer ... but i fixed it, and don't remember how i did it (this time i'll be sure to write it down!) a s

Re: BIG UGLY FONTS

2002-09-07 Thread Bob Hauck
On Sat, 7 Sep 2002, Ken Schrock wrote: > I have ask about this here before, I've searched Google > I've tried the 75 vs 100 font line thing suggested by several people > I have used the Gnome control panel, tried every KDE option, hunted for > gtkrc files Have you changed your kdm/gdm/xdm Xserve

Re: BIG UGLY FONTS

2002-09-07 Thread marshal
el) > machines I have set up this month I have these big ugly fonts in > the menus of any app using GTK or Gnome for an interface Looks > about like a 16 point helvetica, no anti-aliasing, it is REALLY > ugly This goes for Gimp, Evolution, Gaelon, Netscape 7.0, etc &

BIG UGLY FONTS

2002-09-07 Thread Ken Schrock
With Woody, either 2.2 or 2.4 kernel, on my three 7 disk Debian CD install s And on all the Lindows (Woody 3.x 2.4 kernel) machines I have set up this month I have these big ugly fonts in the menus of any app using GTK or Gnome for an interface Looks about like a 16 point helvetica, no anti

Re: Ugly Fonts

2002-03-05 Thread Simon Hepburn
On Tuesday 05 Mar 2002 9:41 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Wouldn't he have to restart xfs (and xfstt)? No, he has reconfigured X to use the X font server instead of displaying tt fonts directly with the xtt or freetype backend. He would only have to restart the font server if he changed the font se

Re: Ugly Fonts

2002-03-05 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 07:07, Simon Hepburn wrote: > On Tuesday 05 Mar 2002 12:40 pm, Patrick Kirk wrote: > > > > XFree86 Version 4.1.0.1 / X Window System > > > > Google led me to an article where xfstt was mentioned. Apt-get > > installed it. Also added the 7101 lie to XF86Config. Made no > > d

Re: Ugly Fonts SOLVED

2002-03-05 Thread Patrick Kirk
On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 13:07, Simon Hepburn wrote: > On Tuesday 05 Mar 2002 12:40 pm, Patrick Kirk wrote: > > > > This is probably a matter of configuring the fonts your browser uses. Send me > your latest XF86Config-4 anyway, I'll take a look. One other thing, did you > prepare your truetype d

Re: Ugly Fonts

2002-03-05 Thread Simon Hepburn
On Tuesday 05 Mar 2002 12:40 pm, Patrick Kirk wrote: > > XFree86 Version 4.1.0.1 / X Window System > > Google led me to an article where xfstt was mentioned. Apt-get > installed it. Also added the 7101 lie to XF86Config. Made no > difference. Rebooted and now instead of staring at horrible spid

Re: Ugly Fonts

2002-03-05 Thread Patrick Kirk
On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 11:38, Simon Hepburn wrote: > On Tuesday 05 Mar 2002 11:14 am, Patrick Kirk wrote: > > > > One more thing - how can I tell what version I'm running of X? > > In an xterm or from the console do > #X -version XFree86 Version 4.1.0.1 / X Window System Google led me to an artic

Re: Ugly Fonts

2002-03-05 Thread Simon Hepburn
On Tuesday 05 Mar 2002 11:14 am, Patrick Kirk wrote: > > One more thing - how can I tell what version I'm running of X? In an xterm or from the console do #X -version I assumed that as you were trying to load freetype/xtt that you were running X4. What version of debian are you running ? Simon

Re: Ugly Fonts

2002-03-05 Thread Simon Hepburn
On Tuesday 05 Mar 2002 10:15 am, Simon Hepburn wrote: > > Try commenting out > #Load"xtt" > > You are using the freetype back end and xtt. Choose one or the other. In > fact thinking about it aren't you using xfs-xtt with X 4 ? You would also > need to specify a path to your font server in sect

Re: Ugly Fonts

2002-03-05 Thread Patrick Kirk
Doh - forgot the file Section "Module" SubSection "extmod" EndSubSection Load"type1" Load"freetype" EndSection Section "Files" RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:

Re: Ugly Fonts

2002-03-05 Thread Patrick Kirk
On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 10:15, Simon Hepburn wrote: > On Tuesday 05 Mar 2002 8:53 am, Patrick Kirk wrote: > > On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 09:24, Oki DZ wrote: > > > > [huge snip] > > > > I don't know if loading modiules was the problem. It looks to me like > > th exserver s simply not using the fonts I'v

Re: Ugly Fonts

2002-03-05 Thread Simon Hepburn
On Tuesday 05 Mar 2002 8:53 am, Patrick Kirk wrote: > On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 09:24, Oki DZ wrote: > > [huge snip] > > I don't know if loading modiules was the problem. It looks to me like > th exserver s simply not using the fonts I've already got! > > And I must say, almost all applications look

Re: Ugly Fonts

2002-03-05 Thread Patrick Kirk
On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 09:24, Oki DZ wrote: [huge snip] I don't know if loading modiules was the problem. It looks to me like th exserver s simply not using the fonts I've already got! And I must say, almost all applications look really bad without decent fonts! Can anyone see what is wron

Re: Ugly Fonts

2002-03-04 Thread Oki DZ
Patrick Kirk wrote: Hi all, My XF86Config says: FontPath"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/" FontPath"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled" FontPath"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled" FontPath"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled" FontPath"/us

Ugly Fonts

2002-03-04 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hi all, My XF86Config says: FontPath"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/" FontPath"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled" FontPath"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled" FontPath"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled" FontPath"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/

Re: Ugly fonts when converting to pdf

2001-11-01 Thread Alan Shutko
Preben Randhol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have made a document in yudit (http://www.yudit.org) which I printed [...] > But now with this document I have written on linux I get very ugly > fonts when I look at the pdf file in xpdf or acroread. When I print > the pdf file

Ugly fonts when converting to pdf

2001-11-01 Thread Preben Randhol
I have written on linux I get very ugly fonts when I look at the pdf file in xpdf or acroread. When I print the pdf file it comes out very nice. Does somebody know why this is happening and what one have to do to fix it? Thanks in advance. Preben Randhol -- «Don't use C; In my opinion, C

Re: fixing netscape's super ugly fonts..how?

2000-04-11 Thread kmself
On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 11:32:03AM -0800, Christopher S. Swingley wrote: > > To fix this, and some related Netscape brain damage, create a file > > /etc/X11/Xresources/netscape, with the following lines: > > Netscape*documentFonts.sizeIncrement: 05 > > > > Thanks a lot for these X resource

Re: fixing netscape's super ugly fonts..how?

2000-04-10 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
Thanks for the info. I searched the Netscape.ap file for all occurances of Courier and Helvetica and stuck those lines in my ~/.Xdefaults, but with the font sizes reduced by 10 (100 instead of 120 mostly). Now things look a little better. Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley tel: 907-474-

Re: fixing netscape's super ugly fonts..how?

2000-04-10 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> > > Thanks a lot for these X resources for Netscape. Do you have any > idea how to control the fonts that Netscape uses for displaying the > menus and other non-web page text? Seems like there should be a > X resource for that too. > karsten already mentioned it: the Netscape.ad file. in the

Re: fixing netscape's super ugly fonts..how?

2000-04-10 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
> To fix this, and some related Netscape brain damage, create a file > /etc/X11/Xresources/netscape, with the following lines: > Netscape*documentFonts.sizeIncrement: 05 Thanks a lot for these X resources for Netscape. Do you have any idea how to control the fonts that Netscape uses for d

Re: fixing netscape's super ugly fonts..how?

2000-04-10 Thread kmself
On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 02:14:52AM +0200, Armin Wegner wrote: > Most web sites are designed for Microsoft. To see them like the author would > like you to see them use Windows fonts. So, install the true type font server > and copy the Windows true type fonts to the appropriet directory. > That's f

Re: fixing netscape's super ugly fonts..how?

2000-04-10 Thread Armin Wegner
Most web sites are designed for Microsoft. To see them like the author would like you to see them use Windows fonts. So, install the true type font server and copy the Windows true type fonts to the appropriet directory. That's fine.

Re: fixing netscape's super ugly fonts..how?

2000-04-08 Thread Tom Pfeifer
This mini-HOWTO should help. It has a specific section for Netscape: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/FDU.html Tom john smith wrote: > > how can I fix netscape's ugly fonts? how? I can barely read the fonts esp. > when visiting sites with really small fonts they are almos

fixing netscape's super ugly fonts..how?

2000-04-08 Thread john smith
how can I fix netscape's ugly fonts? how? I can barely read the fonts esp. when visiting sites with really small fonts they are almost unreadable...well, except maybe if you use a magnifying glass or a microscope or something. then it becomes better. it said in the font HOWTo that net

Re: Ugly fonts in X

1999-05-27 Thread Kent West
"Jens B. Jorgensen" wrote: > > Ah! What you need is the XFree86 Font Deuglification HOWTO: > http://www.frii.com/~meldroc/Font-Deuglification.html > > Try it, you'll like it. I tried it, I liked it. Thanks! This looks like it might be of help. > > Kent West wrote: > > > I've only been using

Re: Ugly fonts in X

1999-05-26 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Ah! What you need is the XFree86 Font Deuglification HOWTO: http://www.frii.com/~meldroc/Font-Deuglification.html Try it, you'll like it. I tried it, I liked it. Kent West wrote: > I've only been using Linux for less than a year, and have only in the past > 6 months or so gotten X and Netscape w

Re: Ugly fonts in X

1999-05-26 Thread Lawrence Walton
On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 04:57:58PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > I've only been using Linux for less than a year, and have only in the past > 6 months or so gotten X and Netscape working fairly well, and only in the > past few weeks gotten WordPerfect working fairly well, and etc. > > One of the big

Ugly fonts in X

1999-05-26 Thread Kent West
I've only been using Linux for less than a year, and have only in the past 6 months or so gotten X and Netscape working fairly well, and only in the past few weeks gotten WordPerfect working fairly well, and etc. One of the big things I've noticed coming from a Windows world is that the fonts ten