From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 10 00:58:13 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0927B1065670 for ; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:58:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBD3E8FC17 for ; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:58:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D984553BC50; Mon, 9 Feb 2009 20:58:12 -0400 (AST) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 88222-03; Mon, 9 Feb 2009 20:58:12 -0400 (AST) Received: by hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 6E76A53BC4E; Mon, 9 Feb 2009 20:58:12 -0400 (AST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CD3053BC4D; Mon, 9 Feb 2009 20:58:12 -0400 (AST) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 20:58:12 -0400 (AST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Thomas Dickey In-Reply-To: <20090209234052.GA21597@saltmine.radix.net> Message-ID: <20090209205704.C90262@hub.org> References: <20090209191710.P90262@hub.org> <20090209234052.GA21597@saltmine.radix.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xorg 7.4: "button" fonts unreadable ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:58:13 -0000 So, if I backtrack to 7.3.x, I should be fine? On Mon, 9 Feb 2009, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 07:28:58PM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: >> >> Have searched Google, but haven't been able to find anything that either >> worked, or was relevant ... I just cleaned out and reinstalled all of my >> ports ... when I load up an xterm (the one I'm working in right now), all >> the text in it is fine and readable ... but, the top of the xterm, where >> it has the 'xterm icon' and some writing to the right of it, the writing >> is unreadable ... > > Basically, the xorg hackers decided to improve your user experience by > lobotomizing the fonts - I modified xterm to recover from that by falling > back to "fixed" (I'm unsure why they left that intact). > > However, window titles are owned by your window manager. > >> If I load up firefox3, the web pages are viewable and readable, but stuff >> like the location bar are unreadable (I have to hope I type without making >> a mistake) ... >> >> I'm not sure what to look at ... have checked the output from starting X, >> and not seeing anything font related ... > > Best advice is to locate the "misc" fonts (or whatever it's called in > FreeBSD) and install those. That'll work until the next improvement to > the X server's font handling. > > -- > Thomas E. Dickey > http://invisible-island.net > ftp://invisible-island.net > ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664