Re: Termianl Font Woes - still garbeled
Keith F Irwin <[email protected]>
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On Fri, 2002-07-26 at 05:54, Alvin Thompson wrote: > hmm... what resolution/monitor/video card? anyone remember how to set > the X DPI setting? i forget... Let's see: at work, I have an Nvidia card (don't remember what it is, maybe Nvidia Quadro2 EX) and at home, an old ATI @home (ATI Mach64), or something like that. I run at dpi of 96, 1600x1200 resolution: startx -- -dpi 96 > Logs/startx.log 2>&1 I removed the DPI setting to see if that made a difference. X defaults to something over 100 DPI when I do this. The fonts look bigger, but the difference I mentioned between the fonts as rendered on the Nautilus desktop (say), and inside the terminal are still there. Maybe I should try Nvidia's drivers rather than the stock RH 7.3 ones? Keith > -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 -- Keith F Irwin <[email protected]> Home _______________________________________________ gnome-2-snapshots maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/gnome-2-snapshots