Guest ndee Posted November 28, 2002 Report Share Posted November 28, 2002 Please anyone help me getting these ugly fonts off my machine. Esp. in icewm, the system fonts are so terribly big and if I use GDK_USE_XFT=0 its quite OK, but some german characters cannot be displayed properly. Why can't the system simply use clean and neat fonts as before? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted November 28, 2002 Report Share Posted November 28, 2002 Whats it look like with GDK_USE_XFT=1? Why can't the system simply use clean and neat fonts as before?b4 what? http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php...&highlight=font http://gnomesupport.org/wiki/index.php/Gno...yAskedQuestions http://rox.sourceforge.net/rox_faq.php3#id2589993 http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ndee Posted November 28, 2002 Report Share Posted November 28, 2002 maybe we can forget the following, because dont know, what I did, but suddenly, it looks kinda OK as for the fontsizes. Could it be due to removing some font line in XF86Config-4. I remarked the use of XFS and only left 75dpi, misc, ttf and mdk inside. ?? Whats it look like with GDK_USE_XFT=1? they look blury on my laptop and no settings will change that,except not using XFT. Under pure gnome2 (from cooker) at least the sizes are OK, but under IceWM, e.g. the password dialog for MDKCC is so terribly big. In gnome, I can set font for size 8, then they're big, if I set to 6, its quite OK, but gnome grumbles about not a valid INT. Why can't the system simply use clean and neat fonts as before?b4 what?Before using this funny XFT, sorry to say that, but the usual clean X fonts were so good http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php...&highlight=font why should I look at Why should I go to PLF, when we have the Cooker? http://gnomesupport.org/wiki/index.php/Gno...yAskedQuestions Thx, was kinda interesting - will test some stuff http://rox.sourceforge.net/rox_faq.php3#id2589993 not using rox http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/ How to get the german chars (äüöß) back on webpages in galeon - I dont know what went wrong, but now I'm having "ã" etc. instead of german chars. Thx for any help and patience..:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ndee Posted November 28, 2002 Report Share Posted November 28, 2002 Hi again, now I'm fully confused. When I start IceWM and open e.g. "gedit", the menu fonts are terribly big. When I open "gnome-control-center" then, change the fonts or the way of smoothing and then close g-c-c, "gedit" opens with nice tiny fonts. When I restart X, all is back to square one. What is this???? Thanks NDEE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted November 28, 2002 Report Share Posted November 28, 2002 they look bluryThat's what AA is. why should I look at Why should I go to PLF, when we have the Cooker? Did'nt read it and go to the links? You need a hacked freetype2 pkg. Cooker won't give you that "for sure", though I'm sure it could be available, or will be. Why not just get one you no will enable XFT. not using roxDon't have to to useGDK_USE_XFT=1 QT_XFT= TRUE (1 did nothing for me) and You'll also want to download some good fonts - truetype.tar.gz from sourceforge.net. Could it be due to removing some font line in XF86Config-4could How to get the german chars (äüöß) back on webpages in galeon I don't know what to tell you on this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted November 28, 2002 Report Share Posted November 28, 2002 How do you start Icewm? I use fluxbox and to use gnome settings, I have gnome-settings-daemon in my ~/.xinitrc , and use startx to start X. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ndee Posted November 29, 2002 Report Share Posted November 29, 2002 How do you start Icewm? Simply use the default from MDK9 - and startx I use fluxbox and to us gnome settings, I have gnome-settings-daemon in my ~/.xinitrc , and use startx to start X. How did you include the gnome-settings-daemon? So far, I will go over all links you provided - this thread looks now almost like a tutorial, is't it? Thanks a lot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted November 29, 2002 Report Share Posted November 29, 2002 How did you include the gnome-settings-daemon? In your HOME user folder you should find a .xinitrc file. Here's mine########FONT######export LC=C export LC_ALL=C QT_XFT=true GDK_USE_XFT=1 ########START PROGRAMS########### #gkrellm & (sleep 1; gkrellm -w) & (sleep 2; play ~/sounds/Select.wav & exit) & ########SESSION######## (sleep 4; gnome-settings-daemon) & #(sleep 5; esd -nobeeps) & #(sleep 3; gnome-theme-properties) & #(sleep 3; rox -l=MyPanel) & #(sleep 45; aterm -tr -trsb +sb -sh 85 -fg blue -cr red -g 85x12+420+00 -e tail -f /var/log/messages) & enable_X11_numlock & #######start NET######## #(sleep 5; service syslog start) & #(sleep 5; /home/ppp/7191) & #Screen (sleep 10; xset s off s noblank dpms 0 0 0) & #start a WM fluxbox #exec /usr/X11R6/bin/fluxbox #exec /usr/bin/startkde #/usr/bin/startgnome #gkrellm &=when I used gnome (sleep 1; gkrellm -w) &=the -w is for fluxbox-to run gkrellm in the slit. (sleep 2; play ~/sounds/Select.wav & exit) &=plays a startup sound (sleep 4; gnome-settings-daemon) &=I know this allows the keyboard and mouse settings for gnome to be used in fluxbox, but I've never had a font problem so I don't know if it'll help. Starting this, also starts gconfd-2, esd, and bonobo-activation-run-query. enable_X11_numlock &=enables the numlock (sleep 10; xset s off s noblank dpms 0 0 0) &=turns off all powersaving features....xset does many things. See man xset. It's part of the X11R6-contrib pkg. If I didn't want to start the gnome-settings-daemon, or didn't have gnome installed, I could use it to set the mouse speed as well. You can also use it to specify a font folder for a user. http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/docs/en/art...rtwiz-fonts.php See the User Install section. export LC=C and export LC_ALL=C=enables gtk2 apps to use the artwiz-fonts for fluxbox. Oh, and the (sleep x; ) specifies the order and delay of the starting of an app or execution of a command, so that the load is kept to a minimum and/ or to prevent conflicts. Like some times if the timing isn't right the starup wave won't work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ndee Posted November 30, 2002 Report Share Posted November 30, 2002 so far so good now. I just got the necessary files and the fonts don't look so ugly now. The only way to get the XFT activated for any xft aware app, like gedit, galeon1.3, pan, etc, is to run "gnome-font-properties" after icewm started. Your hint with gnome-settings-daemon does not solve that. Any idea how to activate gnome-font-properties without having that window to be opened? Two more questions (again): 1. the german characters will be displayed wrong only on this site, any german site will display them correct in galeon. Any idea why? 2. why is fontsize 6 invalid INT? It works great with this size. thx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted November 30, 2002 Report Share Posted November 30, 2002 Any idea how to activate gnome-font-properties without having that window to be opened?Nope 1. the german characters will be displayed wrong only on this site, any german site will display them correct in galeon. Any idea why?That'd be a question to pm the admins with. 2. why is fontsize 6 invalid INT? It works great with this size.Sorry, I have no idea. Look here for some gnome-font answers; http://gnomesupport.org/forums/index.php http://gnomesupport.org/forums/viewtopic.p...&highlight=font http://gnomesupport.org/forums/viewtopic.p...&highlight=font Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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