[TriLUG] Mozilla 1.6 fonts

[Gregory Woodbury]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 11:21:09PM -0500, Timothy A. Chagnon wrote:
> I just installed Mozilla 1.6 on my Fedora Core/1 system.  Previously I
> was running Mozilla 1.4.1 that comes packaged with Fedora.  I noticed
> almost immediately that the fonts are kind-of icky, especially viewing
> /.  The selection of fonts in 1.6 runs along the line of:
> 
> adobe-times-iso8859-1
> adobe-helvetica-iso8859-1
> etc.
> 
> Also, when I tried changing to other fonts (urw-nimbus or b&h-luxi) they
> don't get anti-aliased.  Really icky.
> 
> My Mozilla 1.4.1 has basic font names like serif, sans-serif, URW
> Nimbus, etc.  Is this some kind of modification that fedora does before
> packaging, or is it in the version of Mozilla?  Can I make 1.6 use the
> nicer fonts by changing some config file.
> 
> I have a feeling this has something to do with the X font system vs.
> gnome.  I've run into font issues before and gotten lost in docs, so if
> someone can offer a relatively simple solution that would be great.
> Otherwise just tell me to go back to using 1.4.1.

Use the 1.6 rpms from the Mozilla SeaMonkey repository.

<for /etc/yum.conf>
[mozilla-seamonkey]
name=Mozilla SeaMonkey Release
baseurl=http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/yum/SeaMonkey/releases/current/redhat/1


If this is where you got the package, then I can only suggest waiting
for the Fedora-development version in about a week or so.

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