Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 21:19:59 -0500 (EST) From: John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com> To: Robin Damm <robin@damm.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: odd lack of fonts in Mozilla 1.2.1 Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0301292118140.7559-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org> In-Reply-To: <200301291455.h0TEtgrf000743@lulu.private.lan>
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On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Robin Damm wrote: > John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com> writes: > > > Hello All > > > > I've just installed a minimal 4.7 box with X, mwm and Mozilla 1.2.1 (which > > is just plain mozilla in the ports, cvsup'd tongight). For some reason > > there are very few fonts available in the preferences in Mozilla, and the > > ones that are there look *awful*. I installed Netscape 4.8 and Opera and > > the fonts are fine with them. > > > > Is something busted with native mozilla 1.2.1? Or am I missing something? > > It takes a looooong time to build Mozilla on this box... > > > > I'm just speculating, but the "awful" font appearance could be related > to Xft. I build mozilla with the following option: > > # make WITHOUT_XFT=yes > > This greatly improves font appearance in mozilla (IMHO). There may be > a way to fix this by tuning X, but then you have two problems :) > > Do post if you find a workaround other than recompiling with the > above option. > I was unable to find a solution - however, your method above worked like a charm. Thanks for the hint! Normally I've never had to do this. Perhaps it changed with the new mozilla build? JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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