fonts messed up using mozilla with fluxbox.

ralph · Advocate Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Posts: 2001 Location: Hamburg

Hi, I have a strange issue with my fonts in mozilla when I use fluxbox. some lines look as if they have simply been cut in half, others are much to small, while most lines look normal. if i highlight a line, the problems go away.
but the really strange thing is, that i do only have these problems using fluxbox. when using gnome everything is fine.

any ideas?

stustill · Posted: Thu May 22, 2003 5:21 pm Post subject:

I sometimes have this problem. Haven't noticed it recently, but I believe I read somewhere that it is a bug in mozilla, that is very difficult to reproduce, and is not likely to be fixed

Stu

ralph · Advocate Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Posts: 2001 Location: Hamburg

thanx, its allways good to know im not the onlyone.

guess i will have to take a look around for another browser to use with fluxbox, thats not based on mozilla. :wink:

Sherd · n00b Joined: 22 May 2003 Posts: 2 Location: London, UK

you're definitely not the only one.

I get this problem whenever I scroll.

ralph · Advocate Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Posts: 2001 Location: Hamburg

Hi Sherd,
like i said, i went looking for an other browser and am right now trying the new opera and so far i really like it.

if you get annoyed by mozilla to much maybe you should give it a try. :wink:

jkcunningham · Posted: Thu May 22, 2003 8:31 pm Post subject:

Its not your browser, its your fonts. The reason it changes when you highlight it, is that it switches font.

Did you install xfs? Did you try turning on anti-aliasing?

I'm use Mozilla and my fonts look fine.

-Jeff

ralph · Advocate Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Posts: 2001 Location: Hamburg

jkcunningham · Posted: Sat May 24, 2003 1:38 am Post subject:

Weird. I'll install fluxbox and see if it does it in mine.

mxskweeb · n00b Joined: 19 Oct 2002 Posts: 28 Location: phoenix

Same problem with MoFirebird. I too have been told it's a bug in gecko (kind of fitting... being a lizard and all). I tried the following just to see what would happen:

- Use freetype2 was set to false in unix.js. I turned it on.
- tested
- Disabled AA in fonts.conf
- tested

Same results with both of the above... and it's definitely when I scroll. The change in unix.js didn't seem to make any difference, as fonts were already AA in MF before I made that change. I'm just grasping here. I don't know if I can swing the Opera direction or not - its interpretation of CSS was so... unique... last time I tried it (5.x). I've read that it rocks with CSS now, so if I can live with the adds maybe I'll do it for awhile. I love MF though... it's so beautiful in every other respect.

Lycander · Guru Joined: 10 Apr 2003 Posts: 468

This is what I did for nice fonts in Mozilla (uses gtk2) in KDE:

First I run gnome-font-properties (you have to su to root first) and setup my fonts to my liking. Then I put a sym link to gnome-settings-daemon into my kde autostart folder, any apps (including KDE/Qt) started after the daemon starts will use the fonts defined by gnome-font-properties. However, fonts will be way too big in KDE/Qt, so I then go into font settings in KDE Control Panel and make them smaller. The desktop and kicker start up before the gnome-settings-daemon so I just use xkill to kill those 2 items and run them again.

I'm thinking the same process can be applied for fluxbox. Have gnome-settings-daemon running in the background to override font settings, and define them in the gnome font panel.

Screenshot
Using Bitstream Vera Sans font.

searcher · Apprentice Joined: 13 Mar 2003 Posts: 175 Location: NL

Hmm that seems like a bit of a hack to me ... i'm assuming the original poster read Setting up fonts in mozilla and phoenix and looked around on this forum. I also use fluxbox and Phoenix 0.5, and i have no problem whatsoever with it. I get everything nicely anti-aliassed and problem free. Did you also check the font settings in mozilla itself? Good luck with the whole thing

.
_________________
You are unique ... just like everyone else.

ralph · Advocate Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Posts: 2001 Location: Hamburg

first, thanks for all your help.

i did some more testing and the problem only gets stranger.i still get this problem only in fluxbox and only on certain sites. unfortunatly, the gentoo-forums are one of them. for example, when browsing this thread in gnome everything is fine, but when browsing it in fluxbox several lines are to small or cut of.

i played around with the font settings in mozilla, increased and decreased the font size, changed the resolution (as was suggested in an other thread), but still nothing helps. :cry:

maybe i have to change some settings in fluxbox to get it working, but frankly, i have no idea what to do.

thanks again for your help

and i will do some more hunting around and see if i can solve this problem.

edit: hmm, maybe i found a solution, i set the disply resolution in mozilla to 96 dpi and this time restarted X and now it seems to work, wich of course doesn't mean to much, as i had this problem disappear before and then suddenly come back. *hoping*

Sherd · n00b Joined: 22 May 2003 Posts: 2 Location: London, UK

Thanks for the suggestion, ralph!

Quite like opera now.

-edit-

You're right, 96dpi's the fix I was after. Cheers.

zatalian · Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2003 8:20 am Post subject:

beautifull

96 dpi is working for me too