Hi.
I made a fresh install of Slack 10, and copied an old TrueType fonts
directory that I used with Slack 9.1. I included the path in
/etc/X11/xorg.conf, like I always did, but after reopening X the fonts
look terrible.
The fonts *are* loaded and in the normal size, but they are looking
very ugly in Mozilla, xmms, etc.
Is this a known problem? Any suggestion?
Thanks.

> I made a fresh install of Slack 10, and copied an old TrueType fonts
> directory that I used with Slack 9.1. I included the path in
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf,

Did you setup /etc/fonts/local.conf?
That is the Fontconfig/XFT config file, and all the up-to-date Linux
software use that system instead the legacy X11 fonts.

> like I always did, but after reopening X the fonts
> look terrible.
> The fonts *are* loaded and in the normal size, but they are looking
> very ugly in Mozilla, xmms, etc.

xmms sucks, like other gtk-1 programs it doesn't use the Fontconfig/XFT
system and can't really support a modern internationalized Linux desktop.

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On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 10:12:00 -0700, Anonymous wrote:

> Hi.
> I made a fresh install of Slack 10, and copied an old TrueType fonts
> directory that I used with Slack 9.1. I included the path in
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf, like I always did, but after reopening X the fonts
> look terrible.
> The fonts *are* loaded and in the normal size, but they are looking
> very ugly in Mozilla, xmms, etc.
> Is this a known problem? Any suggestion?
> Thanks.

these two links have all u need to enable your TTF(true type fonts) for
use with everything including XMMS and Mozilla/Firefox/Gimp/etc
The os makes no difference- and xorg doesnt make a difference either



look here
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...+fon ts+gnome

and here
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...threadid=76862

On 25 Jun 2004 10:12:00 -0700, Anonymous
<mepstrep@yahoo.com.br> appears to have said:

> Hi.
> I made a fresh install of Slack 10, and copied an old TrueType fonts
> directory that I used with Slack 9.1. I included the path in
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf, like I always did, but after reopening X the fonts
> look terrible.

I had issues with really broken looking fonts at first. I mean *broken*.
Too thin... missing pixels... just a mess. (I did the same as you...
after installing Slack 10, I copied over my truetype font dirs from my
old install).

I really never got to the bottom of why it happened. I tried a lot of
twiddling in /etc/fonts/local.conf, etc. I don't really remember the
order of what I tried but, I suspect the font cache files from the old
install were the culprit all along.

If you haven't gotten it cleared up yet... I would try doing a "locate
fonts.cache-1" and then removing them to force a rebuild.

HTH,
Jonathan

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