I have two suggestions for improving slack install.

First, it would be very useful if the setup script did not default to
"reformat this partition" during the partition selection sequence. More
than once I have wiped out useful data by hitting return too soon.

Second, the latest KDE install seems to default to an anti-aliasing setting
that renders very ugly fonts. I don't recall what the setting is right now
because I am working from my older 10.0 partition which never had this
problem.

Any comments?
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John Culleton
Able Indexers and Typesetters

John Culleton wrote:
> I have two suggestions for improving slack install.
>
> First, it would be very useful if the setup script did not default to
> "reformat this partition" during the partition selection sequence. More
> than once I have wiped out useful data by hitting return too soon.
>
> Second, the latest KDE install seems to default to an anti-aliasing setting
> that renders very ugly fonts. I don't recall what the setting is right now
> because I am working from my older 10.0 partition which never had this
> problem.
>
> Any comments?

yeah:

to 1: LOL ;-P

but seriously, yeah, it wouldn't hurt to change that.

to 2: i think this is more of a KDE or perhaps Xorg issue, i doubt pat does
anything more than just compile the stuff.

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Joost Kremers joostkremers@yahoo.com
Selbst in die Unterwelt dringt durch Spalten Licht
EN:SiS(9)

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 12:51:32 -0500, John Culleton wrote:

> I have two suggestions for improving slack install.
>
> First, it would be very useful if the setup script did not default to
> "reformat this partition" during the partition selection sequence. More
> than once I have wiped out useful data by hitting return too soon.

I completely second this - I've never done it but it's always a worry as
I keep a seperate /home and /data

> Second, the latest KDE install seems to default to an anti-aliasing
> setting that renders very ugly fonts. I don't recall what the setting is
> right now because I am working from my older 10.0 partition which never
> had this problem.

I don't have this problem so no comment.

I have seen a lot of people asking how to configure beautiful fonts; here is
a mini-mini-howto. Hope that it help! (please give comments good or bad; so
that I know if this kind of info is usefull)

For having good fonts in kde:

You have to configure freetype. Replace your /etc/fonts/fonts.conf by mine
provided in attachmed if you want to test my config (after having backuped
your default version of course). run fc-cache after having modifying this
file. Then go Control Center -> appearence and theme and choose your
favorite fonts (for the user interface helvetica is pretty good). Do the
same for konqueror, konsole, ...

Remark: it is also worthwhile to install windows fonts.

Create a directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/winfonts

Place your TTF fonts in it.

Run mkfontscale in this directory

Copy (not move) fonts.scale to fonts.dir (this works since all ttf fonts are
scalable so the fonts.dir and fonts.scale can be the same)

edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and add the font
path /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/winfonts (if you use xfs; which is not the
default setting in Slackware 10.0 edit the xfs configuration file instead;
see man xfs)

edit /etc/fonts/fonts.conf and add the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/winfonts
font path (this is already done in the file I give in attachment)

Run fc-cache

Restart the xserver


Enjoy your fonts


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Olive