Re: Termianl Font Woes - still garbeled
Alvin Thompson <[email protected]>
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hmm... what resolution/monitor/video card? anyone remember how to set the X DPI setting? i forget... -alvin Keith Irwin wrote: >I reconfigured my font system along the lines you mentioned below with >maybe only slightly better results. Fonts like "monospace" or "lucida >console" or "courier new" still seem "proportiona" in the way they squash >the Ws and Ms. Right now, I'm using courier (not courier new). (I added >all the font paths from the xfs config to the XF86config-4 file rather >than just the ones you mentioned: including the MS fonts.) > >I also set GDK_USE_XFT=1 and, really, there's no difference as far as >gnome-terminal is concerned. Very odd. I'll try a few more tests to see >if things change. > >Keith > >On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Alvin Thompson wrote: > > > >>Keith Irwin wrote: >> >> >> >>>Aside from general grainyness, and the fact that everything seems extra >>>bold, all the wide characters are truncated: Ws look like Vs, Ms look like >>>Ns, and so on. For instance, I'm sending this to what looks like: >>>xinian.con. ;) >>> >>> >>hmm... you might want to make sure your fonts are properly installed, as >>it sounds like your system may not be finding them. if you use XFree86 >>4.x, you may want to do what i do, and use the built-in font server >>instead of xfs, as well as install your windows fonts. the built-in >>server scales nicer, anyway: >> >>1. edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file: >> a. make a backup copy just in case >> b. remove the line that reads: >> FontPath "unix/:-1" (on Mandrake) or >> FontPath "unix/:7100" (Red Hat) >> c. Add these lines where the previous line used to be: >> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF:unscaled" >> Fontpath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled" >> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled" >> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled" >> >>2. if you have a windows machine, and you want to also install your >>windows fonts (very strongly recommended), do this step. otherwise, skip >>this step: >> a. make a backup of your /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF directory just >>in case >> b. copy the contents of your windows fonts directory to >>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/ directory(.ttf files only). >> 1. on windows XP the font dirctory is 'c:\windows\fonts'. the >>files you want all end in '.ttf' >> c. open a shell prompt as root and go to the >>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/ directory >> d. type this command: ttmkfdir >fonts.dir >> e. verify no error messages and the file 'fonts.dir' was just >>created (check timestamp) and the 'fonts.dir' size is bigger than zero. >> >>3. you can also (if you want) use serviceconf or some other tool (or >>manually) to stop the 'xfs' service from starting. it is no longer >>necessary. >> >>4. log out of X and type <control-alt-backspace> just to be sure. >> >>5. log in to X again and set your font preferences again. you should >>have a much larger selection of fonts as well (if you installed windows >>fonts). >> >>THIS ASSUMES A MANDRAKE 8.x or RED HAT 7.2/7.3 SYSTEM!!! IF YOU ARE >>USING SOMETHING ELSE, DON'T DO THIS OR YOU MAY REGRET IT! >> >>hope this helps, >>alvin >> >>log in to X again >> >>Keith Irwin wrote: >> >> >> >>>On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Alvin Thompson wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>sounds like you're using a proportional font, which (at least in the Red >>>>Hat version) it will let you do. to make them monosopace, the software >>>>adds spacing to the proportional fonts which looks really, really bad. >>>>try switching to, say, lucida console or lucidatypewriter, or some other >>>>monospace font. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>This doesn't seem to make any difference. For instance, I'm typing this >>>on what I *think* is Lucida Console, but the "m"s look like n's. I don't >>>know if it makes any difference, but I haven't enabled AA using the >>>environment variable for gnome. (I hate that the pager labels take up to >>>rows.) >>> >>>None of the non-proportional fonts look good at any size. >>> >>>Aside from general grainyness, and the fact that everything seems extra >>>bold, all the wide characters are truncated: Ws look like Vs, Ms look like >>>Ns, and so on. For instance, I'm sending this to what looks like: >>>xinian.con. ;) >>> >>>Keith >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>hope this helps, >>>>alvin >>>> >>>> >>>>J. Gardner Biggs wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>Well, the problem is the spacing between the letters is inconsistent. >>>>>Sometimes the letters crowd each other, sometimes they are far apart. >>>>> >>>>>I think, I when I get home tonight, I will perform a "clean" install of RH73 >>>>>+ Gnome 2 and see what happens, I have been fussing with this installation >>>>>for a few months now, and I am sure some things are not what they should be. >>>>> >>>>>Since the only critical data on this box is the email, what is the easiet >>>>>way to recreate my evolution folder? >>>>> >>>>>1. simply back up and recopy the entire contents of the folder >>>>>(~home/evolution) after reinstallation? >>>>>2. back up the mbox files and reimport them? along with the contacts >>>>>database? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>thanks. >>>>>----- Original Message ----- >>>>>From: "Cédric Marcone" <[email protected]> >>>>>To: "J. Gardner Biggs" <[email protected]> >>>>>Cc: <[email protected]> >>>>>Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 8:27 AM >>>>>Subject: Re: Termianl Font Woes - still garbeled >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>Could you explain what you mean by "screwed up". >>>>>No problems here, look at the attached shot. >>>>> >>>>>On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 15:00, J. Gardner Biggs wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>The nautilus hanging problem is fixed with the newest build, but the >>>>>>terminal fonts are still screwed up. >>>>>> >>>>>>Should I "downgrade" to the earlier snapshots? If so which ones? I saw >>>>>>that the latest gnome-terminal has changed some of its dependencies. >>>>>> >>>>>>TIA >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>-- >>>>>Cédric Marcone >>>>>MDEO Lyon >>>>>Centre de Technologie >>>>>(+33) 4 72 07 92 93 >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>_______________________________________________ >>>>>gnome-2-snapshots maillist - [email protected] >>>>>http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/gnome-2-snapshots >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>_______________________________________________ >>>>gnome-2-snapshots maillist - [email protected] >>>>http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/gnome-2-snapshots >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>_______________________________________________ >>>gnome-2-snapshots maillist - [email protected] >>>http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/gnome-2-snapshots >>> >>> >>> >>> > > >_______________________________________________ >gnome-2-snapshots maillist - [email protected] >http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/gnome-2-snapshots > > _______________________________________________ gnome-2-snapshots maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/gnome-2-snapshots