[TriLUG] Mozilla 1.6 fonts

crimsun at fungus.sh.nu crimsun at fungus.sh.nu
Fri Jan 30 01:19:24 EST 2004


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:

Offhand it sounds like you're not using a build that has Gtk2 and Xft
support. Gregory offered one yum source that should resolve that. On
my Red Hat 9 machine at the office, I use a Gtk2+Xft-enabled binary
tarball, and things "look ok." These can be found from the download
link on mozilla.org; google may be faster for revealing nightly builds.

-Daniel

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Daniel T. Chen          crimsun at fungus.sh.nu
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