RE: tiny font fix (kinda)

[Mike Wyer <mike wyer org>]

I remember using misc-fixed for a while, as that doesn't get anti-aliased
and so can be used anyway. I also removed my font cache at one point, but
I didn't see any immediate effect.

Clearing .gconf put me in a worse position than I started at, so I
restored my previous one.

<rant>
BTW this issue really sucks, and there is no good analysis of it anywhere
in the gnome mailing lists, pango sites, gdk docs, or anywhere in fact.
I'm sure a lot of the behind-the-scenes stuff in GNOME is improving, but
all I see is Havoc Pennington ripping vital functionality out of my window
manager in the name of consistency and "useability", while someone else
goes and breaks font support.

I would love to put together a patch that fixed the problem, but it's
pretty much impossible to pin down to a specific part of gnome without
participation from all the potential culprits. Pango is looking pretty
damn suspicious right now, though.
</rant>

Ok, I found my rattle again :)

Sorry I can't be more help- I just know it definitely started working with
XFT off, while picking "sans" as the default in the font selection dialog.

Cheers,
Mike

On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 corner chello at wrote:

> 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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Mike Wyer     <mike wyer org>     www.wyer.org/mike     07974 254007

    "I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my Grandfather...
  ... not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car"