[Mini-HOWTO] X.org & font

Bash[DevNull] · Guru Joined: 10 Oct 2003 Posts: 333

Hey, people! Please, post your screenshots (for example Firefox with opened gentoo-forums) :)))
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BlindSpy · Apprentice Joined: 20 Mar 2004 Posts: 263

Sastraxi whats the dif without moznoxft compiled in? do you still have antialiasing?
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Sastraxi · Apprentice Joined: 25 Feb 2003 Posts: 258

I have antialiasing and no more of that awful blurry 'x' or 'k' without a bottom... it's amazing

Here's my current desktop, if you guys want to see it.

[img:f6daf4689c]http://www.crystal-rain.com/files/screeno.png[/img:f6daf4689c]
http://www.crystal-rain.com/files/screeno.png if the image doesn't work...
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Zyne · Guru Joined: 08 Jun 2004 Posts: 334

Thanks a lot for this great guide mate...
I just finished compiling my X.org after getting rid of xfree, and my fonts looked like shit... This little howto fixed all my problems with my fonts.

Thanks again mate!

mlybarger · Guru Joined: 04 Sep 2002 Posts: 480

i tried this also to the T, but still have not so good fonts. they're probably not getting anti aliased or some such. my /var/log/Xorg.0.log file shows:

Tun · Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2004 10:16 pm Post subject:

Cheers for this, it was a big help in sorting my fonts out.

I never realised firefox could look like this, it's a lot more impressive than it was under XFree and I can now use artwiz fonts with fluxbox which I'd failed at before.

I had a test of different options an I found -moznoxf and uncommenting the sub-pixel rendering worked best for me. If compiled with +moznoxf the fonts in firefox were basic, and the sub-pixel rendering 'fattened out' the antialiased fonts making them more pleasing on the eye.

Bash[DevNull] · Guru Joined: 10 Oct 2003 Posts: 333

paperp · Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2004 7:11 am Post subject:

First of all thanks a lot for this guide.I got this errorand I 'm not able to get ananswer on myself why says .."have been masked ..2 if i use ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86???

Tun · Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2004 9:40 pm Post subject:

Tun · Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2004 10:03 pm Post subject:

thinair · Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2004 3:15 pm Post subject:

I dont understand what is the difference between :

solka · Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2004 9:39 pm Post subject:

Hi all.
I'm back from my holidays and now I can give some answers, but first I want to thank you all for your support

nostabo · Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2004 5:11 am Post subject:

To change the fonts when using Mozilla (1.7 at least) add the code (as suggested earlier):

Psycam · n00b Joined: 26 Jun 2004 Posts: 17

By not using -moznoxfs, the firefox 9.1 actually produced better results for me (anti-aliased menu, etc.). Just thought I'd share that.

JetAce44 · Apprentice Joined: 02 Feb 2004 Posts: 152

I just have to say, excellent guide, I have everything up and running with X.org now, very very painless. Thank you very much!
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nkolia · n00b Joined: 15 Jul 2004 Posts: 21

If I understand this correctly then the changes made to ~/.fonts.conf can be done in /etc/fonts/local.conf to enable system-wide effects instead of a per user basis?
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solka · Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2004 10:41 am Post subject:

Well I have never tried but I think that's correct...
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Boworr · Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2004 3:03 pm Post subject: Worked a treat...

Thanks! I followed this to the letter and have nice fonts to look at again.

Great work on putting this together.

Boworr

I tried this on my home PC too and it would not work. I eventually tracked it down to my /etc/fonts/fonts.conf being empty. It had the header file information, the starting <fontconfig>, the usual warning text but then nothing else.

So if you're seeing the error below check your fonts.conf file too.

lagrima · Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2004 3:26 pm Post subject:

hello guys, im new at this but can you guys post what the necessary USE flags for this? for some reason i emerge the fonts and it emerges xfree also i want to use xorg omg!
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lagrima · Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2004 3:44 pm Post subject:

when i do emerge -pv fonts fonts etc etc

one of the things in red is +X

would adding -X on my use flags not install xfree?
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solka · Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2004 9:10 pm Post subject:

No, the USE flag "X" is also for x.org.
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lagrima · Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2004 12:48 am Post subject:

i took the X off and it stopped installing xfree for my fonts oh well xorg works now it seems
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nostabo · Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2004 1:26 am Post subject:

A way to stop any merging of xfree is by adding a line to your /etc/portage/package.mask file which will exclude any ebuilds that are listed within it. This approach should not block any X.org files which will allow you to do updates without worrying about that "tainted" code.

If you don't have a /etc/portage/package.mask all you need to do is:

scruff · Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 2:57 am Post subject:

Thanks for the tutorial! Had to tweak the Firefox fonts to my liking, but otherwise it worked fine right off the bat.
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