Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2004 16:49:13 +0100 From: sigsegv@mail.ru Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X11 fonts Message-ID: <40C1EB79.7010006@mail.ru> In-Reply-To: <40C1E353.7080102@vo.lu> References: <40C1E353.7080102@vo.lu>
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Patrick Useldinger wrote: > Hi all, > a newbie question: I have just installed X11 (Xfree86 4.3), KDE (3.2.2) > and Firebird (0.8), and surfing works very well. Compared to my Windows > machine however, I think that the fonts look less appealing to what I am > used to. > So I need a pointer - is this due to > 1) the video driver? the card is an ATI Radeon 7500, and I configured > the driver 'radeon' which should be correct. > 2) the X11 fonts? which one 'look best'? > 3) KDE - how can I make it to use the nicer fonts? > 4) Firebird? > Regards, You may need to setup fonts to be anti-alised on your XFree86 configuration, below is a small how to. If you still have ugly fonts, get back to us and we'll se what's wrong. http://www.huckstep.uklinux.net/mle/fonts.html
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