ianw1974 Posted May 16, 2005 Report Share Posted May 16, 2005 Since I've installed LE2005, I've noticed that the fonts look extremely peculiar and something isn't right. First, I changed everything to Sans, 9pt, and I have anti-aliasing on, because it looks even worse without it. Yet, I sometimes find, that, eg:, if I run mcc, all the fonts are really large. And sometimes in the browser windows, they look like you are reading a fax. Some lines only have half the words or part of them missing so you can just about read it. Any ideas as to what's going on? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted May 18, 2005 Report Share Posted May 18, 2005 Several different problems there. First problem, you need to change GNOME's font properties, as MCC is a GTK+ application so it respects the GTK+ font settings. Set the point size and DPI (it's under the Details button in the GNOME font applet) to the same as you have in KDE. 'looks like a fax' - sounds to me like the app you're using hasn't been built to use fontconfig etc. Are you using an official MDV package? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theo Posted May 18, 2005 Report Share Posted May 18, 2005 I have to run gnome-fonts-properties at the startup of my session to resolve this problem (before launching all others apps). don't ask me why, the only thing I know is: that resolves the problem. you can also run /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon (...) if someone can explain me, I'll give him/her all my respect -_- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted May 18, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 18, 2005 Basically what happens is that when I scroll up and down in my Firefox browser, sometimes the words get chopped. For example, on the word chopped I would be missing the top of the h and the d. Sometimes even more than this! I've tried both those but it seems none of those options are available for me to run, not installed, as I don't use gnome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theo Posted May 18, 2005 Report Share Posted May 18, 2005 gnome-settings-daemon is not only for gnome but for all GTK app (like firefoxy). here's my firefox's settings: fonts for: western proportional: serif (16) serif: times new roman -> imported in mdv from my windowb partition sans-serif: verdana -> imported in mdv from my windowb partition monospace: courier pitch 10 (12) I hope that can help you. Cheers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theo Posted May 18, 2005 Report Share Posted May 18, 2005 oh, and I imported some fonts from my windowb; arial, times new roman, courier new, verdana, helvetica, lucida, tahoma, comics I think that's all. yeah. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted May 18, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 18, 2005 Have decided to give up on this. I think some of this had problems with the fact I couldn't get my Intel card working properly. OpenGL wouldn't work. Couldn't open OpenOffice apps or anything like that, as a libGL error was being given. It's possible that the driver was causing the font issue to or at least for the chopping of words, etc. Gone back to 10.1 OE, and all OK with all apps, and video driver, fonts and everything! Many thanks for your help though! Much appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edd Posted August 5, 2005 Report Share Posted August 5, 2005 I just thought it would be worth mentioning, I had the problem with firefox cutting letters in half, but I just downloaded Deer Park Alpha 2 and the problem does not seem to exist (for me at least). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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