RE: tiny font fix (kinda)

[corner chello at]

You mean to get readable fonts in the boxes at the bottom of the font selection
window.  I tried quite a few with no luck.  Which font did you pick? Or what
else might you have done?

Tom Corner

On 27-Mar-2003 Mike Wyer wrote:
> I see a bunch of people with the 1-pixel font problem. I have no idea what
> the root cause is, but the following procedure cleared it up for me:
> 
> Turn off GDK_USE_XFT (in the garnome startup script)
> 
> Startup garnome, go to the Application_Settings->font dialog.
> Pick a different application font until the anti-alias example
> blocks are readable.
> 
> turn GDK_USE_XFT back on again
> 
> I'm guessing that the format of some of the font options have changed, but
> this is the only way I could find it. It may be that one of the other
> desperate measures I went through actually did the trick, but this is
> worth a go if you can't read anything :)
> 
> Cheers,
> Mike
> -- 
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> 
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