From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HltuF-0007zd-Vd for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 09 May 2007 21:41:08 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l49LcvGH016324; Wed, 9 May 2007 21:38:57 GMT Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.174]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l49LYQhD011549 for ; Wed, 9 May 2007 21:34:27 GMT Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id z38so374383ugc for ; Wed, 09 May 2007 14:34:27 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=TAuGONDC1qoL/r2IECraY02EN16rV+VKqiuXs3KaFittjN4SpiM5L7MGaZiMEdpJzCr+AygPuj0o8YaB8GnnSJ/qB4wEfwuX0UjztqL0dc3wPXo64L1aZ+st++jO7p+0A23jSnszAFAOoz6JBX5lF1oYU4XNSlL1ojbtGS9G4Yg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=fNqHK6DJ2WgApzX/zwREMEafi//cyQdJfijIR9PMJNVpadRFJGu7JX5LQIOpp0rCalYuxIpg+cNqEli1bIVuDhOCgc3BYt23UQDcyHb9jOW3CjF/0nJ83Q5TzNdaOObvzb7x8a+r3qZupSbS0BI/uyrEesODUV/2NIfsLEi36cM= Received: by 10.82.120.14 with SMTP id s14mr1919139buc.1178746466384; Wed, 09 May 2007 14:34:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lappy.study ( [213.162.120.196]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id b30sm6934381ika.2007.05.09.14.34.25; Wed, 09 May 2007 14:34:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] freetype-2.3.3 messed up my desktop Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 22:33:34 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <200705092011.29945.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <200705092251.51985.coder.tux@gmail.com> <200705092230.56145.mail@eliasprobst.eu> In-Reply-To: <200705092230.56145.mail@eliasprobst.eu> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1339200.IfXJsvoJAk"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200705092233.52428.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: e98856da-9839-445d-9a2e-fc73bc21fe3a X-Archives-Hash: 97e671ada8425963519461bd0eb8ab38 --nextPart1339200.IfXJsvoJAk Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday 09 May 2007 21:30, Elias Probst wrote: > On Wednesday 09 May 2007 21:51:51 Nistor Andrei wrote: > > On Wednesday 09 May 2007, Mick wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > > > Just updated my laptop and noticed that freetype-2.3.3 was installed. > > > Restarted xorg and the font size and legibility of X apps changed for > > > the worse. The fonts are now considerably smaller, anti-aliasing mak= es > > > them look really blurred, fixed-width font in Kmail is shown grey(!), > > > etc. > > I have this problem too. > After doing a > rm -rf /etc/font* /home/*/.font* && emerge freetype && X restart > font rendering was a little bit better, but there are still two issues (s= ee > also attached screenshots): > - The bullets of the password text input field in KDE are pixelized > - Konsole fonts have unconsistent fontkerning > > See also this URLs for troubleshooting regarding freetype-2.3.3: > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-558045.html > http://wiki.gentoo-xeffects.org/Font_Rendering Thank you very much! The suggestions in the links and remerging fontconfig= =20 and freetype fixed it. Phew! I thought that I might have to get used to t= he=20 eye-strain. o_o Unless the string you suggested above is wrong you may want to also emerge= =20 fontconfig to see if it makes any difference? Thanks again. :) =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart1339200.IfXJsvoJAk Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBGQj5A5Fp0QerLYPcRAjtLAKDBLjks4MhTdv+Nvre8vQsH4C5RlQCgs7hg +kKdRkKLbI5S8yx16YZz7gA= =KaRJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1339200.IfXJsvoJAk-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list