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On Wednesday 09 May 2007 21:30, Elias Probst wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 09 May 2007 21:51:51 Nistor Andrei wrote: |
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> > On Wednesday 09 May 2007, Mick wrote: |
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> > > Hi All, |
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> > > |
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> > > Just updated my laptop and noticed that freetype-2.3.3 was installed. |
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> > > Restarted xorg and the font size and legibility of X apps changed for |
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> > > the worse. The fonts are now considerably smaller, anti-aliasing makes |
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> > > them look really blurred, fixed-width font in Kmail is shown grey(!), |
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> > > etc. |
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> |
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> I have this problem too. |
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> After doing a |
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> rm -rf /etc/font* /home/*/.font* && emerge freetype && X restart |
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> font rendering was a little bit better, but there are still two issues (see |
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> also attached screenshots): |
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> - The bullets of the password text input field in KDE are pixelized |
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> - Konsole fonts have unconsistent fontkerning |
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> See also this URLs for troubleshooting regarding freetype-2.3.3: |
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> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-558045.html |
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> http://wiki.gentoo-xeffects.org/Font_Rendering |
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Thank you very much! The suggestions in the links and remerging fontconfig |
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and freetype fixed it. Phew! I thought that I might have to get used to the |
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eye-strain. o_o |
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Unless the string you suggested above is wrong you may want to also emerge |
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fontconfig to see if it makes any difference? |
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Thanks again. :) |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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