Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 09:56:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: pav@FreeBSD.org Cc: freebsd-current@www.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Beta2: Nice job! Message-ID: <17161.55703.734118.584359@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <1124717191.75167.48.camel@pav.hide.vol.cz> References: <17161.51084.456346.976929@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <1124715244.75167.40.camel@pav.hide.vol.cz> <17161.53691.614602.758290@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <1124717191.75167.48.camel@pav.hide.vol.cz>
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pav@FreeBSD writes: > Andrew Gallatin p=ED=B9e v po 22. 08. 2005 v 09:23 -0400: > > > > Try native mozilla/firefox, you will be pleasantly surprised with the > > > slicky smoothness of fonts delivered by freetype and libXft. > >=20 > > I'm sorry, I should have mentioned: Native versins of firefox and > > other gnomish things (thunderbird) look just as blurry. Xfce menus > > and title bars look bad, etc. The only fonts which look decent > > are the 15-year old X11 fonts that xterm and xemacs use. > > Ah, so the deal is that you actually don't like the antialiasing > smoothness we all love. Hmm. Maybe it is something wrong with my eyes? The odd thing is that when I hook my powerbook to my 1600x1200 lcd, somehow MacOSX makes fonts look decent. They are still blurry, but not nearly so bad. > www/mozilla port have "Enable Xft font anti-aliasing" option, you could > try to toggle this off and try it. Aha! setenv GDK_USE_XFT 0 will do the same thing at runtime.. This seems to improve things quite a bit. But I just don't see how other people can stand the defaults with lcd monitors. Drew
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