Ok, here's the deal
1. Fresh 10.1 Official install - downloaded ISOs
2. Remove my cd sources, and urpmi internet ones.
3. urpmi fluxbox
- says that there are a lot of XOrg dependencies - these are the latest security patched updates from Mandrake.
4. I said yes, downloaded packages - restarted KDE - and i'm in font hell.
Firefox fonts are badly affected - i just have a choice of very small and too big when i do CTRL - and CTRL + to resize. Certain fonts elsewhere (konqueror,konsole) are messed up too.
Note that this is FRESH install - and i didnt tweak the fonts at all nor did i tweak or configure any XOrg config files. Out of the box, Mdk 10.1 off the ISOs has great ,crisp fonts.
Try uprmi'ng fluxbox and you end up with a real nasty font mess.
Any idea why exactly the fonts would mess up so badly after such a simple procedure as detailed above?
Here's a snippet of Google news in Firefox 1.0 - my Firefox font config is :
Proportional Font is Sans Serif, size 14 , minimum font size none.
Ugly isn't it?