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 1HlsNn-0002nC-6N for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 09 May 2007 20:03:31 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l49K19XQ018609; Wed, 9 May 2007 20:01:09 GMT Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.169]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l49Jp9Ef004167 for ; Wed, 9 May 2007 19:51:09 GMT Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id z38so357422ugc for ; Wed, 09 May 2007 12:51:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=t3rieJ+syn94L4Z3zvnkxtQmO0Tvln5HPtbqZ3mYbdujqb8K99ldPFdaT21lYCKEGaAKYND4LT33U0R93DhkFBKc7IvvnyzX2G1xI2pL+27tQ6AjFUEnpLxPnW3rSB6X7/RxFZ/XjyigvnL5pmRl3EowVJAVuJulNGpZ1OETvBQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=HpKQotp7TxWaQcfY3K6AqerYStwd7V5aSbKVm/+5T++znXIX2LHVjJVCXBRexAfy4JuY0QHDN6YAe94TIw9d1HpYXXZ45Y1bwW+ir8yJb4RWr4Nqzb3JkexVcr9jvAMpU1fPWl+EhmV7zYvLnJUuPMzeK0+BQIYEGDoz/Z7x1RM= Received: by 10.67.116.2 with SMTP id t2mr1483949ugm.1178740269569; Wed, 09 May 2007 12:51:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?89.33.117.40? ( [89.33.117.40]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id 59sm3663801ugf.2007.05.09.12.51.07; Wed, 09 May 2007 12:51:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Nistor Andrei To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] freetype-2.3.3 messed up my desktop Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 22:51:51 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <200705092011.29945.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200705092011.29945.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> 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: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200705092251.51985.coder.tux@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 6e3cf768-0f2c-40df-9d0b-040b7c0a9f73 X-Archives-Hash: d9c039a397282268b71b0655ba975b20 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 makes them > look really blurred, fixed-width font in Kmail is shown grey(!), etc. > > Am I the only one that had this unwelcome (in my case) change? I tried > removing anti-aliasing for fonts 06-12ps, but then they looked rather > jagged and extremely wiry (too thin). I'd rather didn't change everything > to bold, but fear that in five minutes I am going to get a migraine due to > eye strain! :) > > Is this the way it is supposed to look? They look ok to me... Maybe your resolution changed somehow (very unlikely...) I experienced similar problems with a 15 inch monitor that got a resolution bigger than what it could handle... But your screenshot is 1024x768 so unless you scaled it down, that would be my guess... Maybe someone else has another idea? > PS. In reality it looks more blurred that the attached picture, probably > because of the low quality of the monitor. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list