From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 21 03:10:34 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D7A537B401 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 03:10:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pfepc.post.tele.dk (pfepc.post.tele.dk [193.162.153.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FF2C43FD7 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 03:10:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd.nospam@mekanix.dk) Received: from frodo.my.domain (0x3ef312ea.albnxx2.adsl.tele.dk [62.243.18.234]) by pfepc.post.tele.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0C8E2628F1; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 12:10:30 +0200 (CEST) From: Bjarne Wichmann Petersen To: Joe Marcus Clarke , BSD baby Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 12:10:49 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200304211210.49348.freebsd.nospam@mekanix.dk> cc: FreeBSD User Questions List Subject: Font-issues with XFree4.3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 10:10:35 -0000 On Tuesday 15 April 2003 07:40, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > When you say "should all happen automatically" - do you mean that if I > > just install FreeBSD 4.8 with XFree + KDE 3.1 directly from the=20 > > FreeBSD 4.8 CD-Rom, as-is, then start up KDE, and click the "use anti- > > aliased fonts" box, that it should work? > It should, but fontconfig is still pretty infantile. Since 4.8-RELEASE > hit the shelves, two updates have been made to fontconfig, one to Xft, > and one to freetype2. You should update all three of those ports, then > KDE should Just Work. Note, I'm a GNOME user, and I'm not sure if > there's something KDE-specific that still needs doing. Hmm, I'm having issues aswell. I try to stay current with the ports and do upgrades a couple of times a week. For the last week or more some stuff looks weird. Ie. PDFs viewed in acroread5 look terrible pixelised (but ok i kghostview) and StarOffice hints at issues as well, though their menus look normal. I suspect it might be an issue with linuxbase... except since yesterday after an upgrade, kmail/KDE started to show "attitude". Using fontsizes of 8 or less doesn't look as nice as it use too. I've tried turning AA on and off with no effect. Bjarne -- Homepage: http://www.mekanix.dk