RVDowning Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 With the installation of 2009.0 I now seem to have ugly fonts. Anybody know the cure? [moved from Installing Mandriva by spinynorman] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yossarian Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 If you mean in the OS and you're using Gnome, you can try System -> Preferences -> Appearance, and choose the fonts tab. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 These are the font packages I have installed, check and match against yours and install any missing ones to see if it gets any better: [root@esprit ian]# rpm -qa | grep -i font x11-font-alias-1.0.1-13mdv2009.0 fonts-ttf-liberation-1.04-1mdv2009.0 urw-fonts-2.0-22mdv2009.0 fonts-ttf-dejavu-2.26-1mdv2009.0 fonts-ttf-bitstream-vera-1.10-7mdv2009.0 font-tools-0.1-17mdv2009.0 x11-font-misc-misc-1.0.0-8mdv2009.0 mkfontscale-1.0.5-2mdv2009.0 x11-font-cursor-misc-1.0.0-6mdv2009.0 libfontconfig1-2.6.0-3mdv2009.0 lib64fontenc1-1.0.4-5mdv2009.0 x11-font-bh-type1-1.0.0-6mdv2009.0 lib64xfont1-1.3.3-1mdv2009.0 fontconfig-2.6.0-3mdv2009.0 ghostscript-fonts-8.11-10mdv2009.0 lib64fontconfig1-2.6.0-3mdv2009.0 mkfontdir-1.0.4-2mdv2009.0 [root@esprit ian]# rpm -qa | grep -i ttf fonts-ttf-liberation-1.04-1mdv2009.0 fonts-ttf-dejavu-2.26-1mdv2009.0 fonts-ttf-bitstream-vera-1.10-7mdv2009.0 ignore any 64 bit packages if you're using a 32 bit version. Just look for 32 bit equivalents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RVDowning Posted October 15, 2008 Author Share Posted October 15, 2008 No, its KDE. (3.x I think, but there is still 4.x junk on the system.) Just wondering if I have to install something. All the hidden config files for everything (gnumeric, opera, etc, etc.) should still be there pointing to whatever fonts they used to use. My thinking was that these fonts must no longer exist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 (edited) if you have ugly fonts in opera, go the the following address: opera:config#UserPrefs|EnableCoreXFonts and disable core x fonts Edited October 15, 2008 by ffi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RVDowning Posted October 15, 2008 Author Share Posted October 15, 2008 I'll give it a shot when I get home. Thanks. I'm getting quite a laundry list of stuff to do tonight. Its nice to be busy. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RVDowning Posted October 15, 2008 Author Share Posted October 15, 2008 if you have ugly fonts in opera, go the the following address: opera:config#UserPrefs|EnableCoreXFonts and disable core x fonts They were already disabled. Maybe I should try enabling them. I doubted that that had anything to do with it though. It is not just in Opera that things look bad. Spreadsheets in gnumeric also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoonma Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 I had a very similar problem, but in Gnome. The display improved a lot after installing msttfonts package as described here: http://www.howtoforge.com/the-perfect-desk...2009.0-gnome-p5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 I don't have that problem with fonts, but I listed my font packages above. And all mine look really cool, better than anything I had installed on my laptop for the last year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 They were already disabled. Maybe I should try enabling them. I doubted that that had anything to do with it though. It is not just in Opera that things look bad. Spreadsheets in gnumeric also. nah, leave it core x fonts *are* vry ugly. maybe you could make a screenshot of some ugly fonts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RVDowning Posted October 16, 2008 Author Share Posted October 16, 2008 (edited) I had a very similar problem, but in Gnome. The display improved a lot after installing msttfonts package as described here: http://www.howtoforge.com/the-perfect-desk...2009.0-gnome-p5 Yeah, I had held on to that package in my home directory so I installed it last night. Now I just have to go into each application and set the fonts to use, I guess. The problem is that I don't remember which fonts I was using for what in 2008.1. Maybe I can recover the Opera config file from an old backup. Likewise with Gnumeric, etc. I had forgotten about msttfonts. Thanks. (I am using the KDE equivalent.) Edited October 16, 2008 by RVDowning Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 You don't need msttfonts. I don't have it, and my fonts look great :) See my above posts, because they look like they were ignored so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RVDowning Posted October 16, 2008 Author Share Posted October 16, 2008 You don't need msttfonts. I don't have it, and my fonts look great :) See my above posts, because they look like they were ignored so far. The only one I did not have installed of the 32 bit ones was: fonts-ttf-bitstream-vera Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jkerr82508 Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 You don't need msttfonts. I agree. The only reason I have for installing msfonts is for a couple of windows programs that I run under wine. They do look better if the msfonts are installed. Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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