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On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 7:09 PM, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> Fluxbox is blowing up on my new machine because it can't find any |
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> fixed fonts. I just realized that merely building xorg-server doesn't |
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> download any fonts. Looking at /usr/portage/media-fonts I see a whole |
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> bunch of options. Any experiences good/bad with any of them? Remember |
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> that this will be on an 11.6" netbook, currently running 1024x768, and |
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> hopefully 1366x768 one of these days. And the less processor power it |
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> requires to render, the better. |
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> -- |
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> Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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Font rendering, typically, takes so little processing it'll be the |
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least of your worries if you find something being sluggish. I have |
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dell mini 9 here with flux running beautifully on all 1024x600 I have |
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to play with, and am using whatever gtk picked up as "Sans" in 8pt for |
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all my gtk apps, .fluxbox/overlay set to override all fonts with |
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sans-8, and just glancing at my installed fonts, I believe that's |
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mapping to dejavu's sans serif font. All my installed fonts, at the |
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moment, I have: |
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media-fonts/corefonts |
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media-fonts/dejavu |
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media-fonts/font-cursor-misc |
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media-fonts/font-misc-misc |
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media-fonts/gnu-gs-fonts-std |
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And those could be slimmed down a bit, really. I've run 6pt, here and |
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there, but decided it best not to ruin my eyesight by staring at a |
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glossy screen and deciphering that small of text (was still quite |
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crisp, I'm still impressed by this display). |
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Poison [BLX] |
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Joshua M. Murphy |
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