[gentoo-user] Fonts <-> FireFox <-> X11 ?

[gentoo-user] Fonts <-> FireFox <-> X11 ?

[Meino Christian Cramer]

Hi,

 I got good looking fonts setting for my firefox (and most others
 X11-progs) when installing Gentoo initially.

 Now I updated X11 (Xorg) and especiall firefox got a very bad
 font-set.

 Since I dont know the initial font settings of the firefox
 application I would be lucky, if one could post her/his one to me, so
 that I could get an idea, what fonts to use best.

 Thanks a lot for your help in advance!

 Have a nice weekend,
 Meino

   
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Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts <-> FireFox <-> X11 ?

[Mark Knecht]

On 7/19/06, Meino Christian Cramer <Meino.Cramer@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  I got good looking fonts setting for my firefox (and most others
>  X11-progs) when installing Gentoo initially.
>
>  Now I updated X11 (Xorg) and especiall firefox got a very bad
>  font-set.
>
>  Since I dont know the initial font settings of the firefox
>  application I would be lucky, if one could post her/his one to me, so
>  that I could get an idea, what fonts to use best.
>
>  Thanks a lot for your help in advance!
>
>  Have a nice weekend,
>  Meino

Did you emerge the font set that was in the xorg-x11-7 upgrade HOWTO?

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Modular_Xorg

# emerge -DuNav font-adobe-100dpi font-adobe-75dpi font-adobe-utopia-100dpi \
font-adobe-utopia-75dpi font-bh-100dpi font-bh-75dpi font-bh-type1 \
font-bh-lucidatypewriter-100dpi font-bh-lucidatypewriter-75dpi \
font-bitstream-100dpi font-bitstream-75dpi ttf-bitstream-vera \
corefonts sharefonts freefonts font-ibm-type1

Hope this helps,
Mark
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Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts <-> FireFox <-> X11 ?

[Donnie Berkholz]

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Mark Knecht wrote:
> Did you emerge the font set that was in the xorg-x11-7 upgrade HOWTO?
> 
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Modular_Xorg
> 
> # emerge -DuNav font-adobe-100dpi font-adobe-75dpi
> font-adobe-utopia-100dpi \
> font-adobe-utopia-75dpi font-bh-100dpi font-bh-75dpi font-bh-type1 \
> font-bh-lucidatypewriter-100dpi font-bh-lucidatypewriter-75dpi \
> font-bitstream-100dpi font-bitstream-75dpi ttf-bitstream-vera \
> corefonts sharefonts freefonts font-ibm-type1

In general that's kind of a silly font set. No new apps still use bitmap
fonts (-75dpi and -100dpi). Probably the only ones worth having there
are ttf-bitstream-vera and corefonts, maybe sharefonts/freefonts if
you'll settle for lower quality.

Thanks,
Donnie


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Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts <-> FireFox <-> X11 ?

[louis brazeau]

On 7/19/06, Meino Christian Cramer <Meino.Cramer@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  I got good looking fonts setting for my firefox (and most others
>  X11-progs) when installing Gentoo initially.
>
>  Now I updated X11 (Xorg) and especiall firefox got a very bad
>  font-set.
>
>  Since I dont know the initial font settings of the firefox
>  application I would be lucky, if one could post her/his one to me, so
>  that I could get an idea, what fonts to use best.
>
>  Thanks a lot for your help in advance!
>
>  Have a nice weekend,
>  Meino
>
>
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> gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
>
>

Check that you have xdpyinfo on your system. Firefox uses that to
adjust fonts when it starts.

After upgrading to xorg-x11 7.0 I noticed that fonts in Firefox where
much ugliyer than they used to. I started it in a xterm and it
complained about a missing xdpyinfo. So, I emerged xdpyinfo and
re-started Firefox.

Voila, my fonts are back.

Hope it helps.

P.S.: If you haven't read it already, the HOWTO Xorg and Fonts
document is prety good.
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Xorg_and_Fonts

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