mozilla 1.4 -- menu fonts look like crap

pathwalker · n00b Joined: 18 Jul 2003 Posts: 26

Hello,

This is my first full day using Gentoo, after spending a day getting it running. My only complaint is that the menu fonts in mozilla aren't anti-aliased. The email messages are, and web pages are, but the menu fonts are not.

s there something I need to to to get Mozilla to use Xft, or something else? Font wizards, help!!!

dgrant · Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2003 5:42 pm Post subject:

Two things:

1) When you install Mozilla, do:

emerge -vp mozilla

and look at the flags. You should see something like:

[ebuild R ] net-www/mozilla-1.4 +java +crypt -ipv6 -gtk2 +ssl -ldap -gnome -mozsvg -mozcalendar -mozaccess -mozp3p -mozxmlterm -moznoirc -moznomail -moznocompose -moznoxft

This is correct for having xft support. If you had USE="moznoxft" set, then you wouldn't have xft support.

2) Check the fonts in the mozilla preferences. I think the menu fonts won't change until you restart mozilla, but I can't remember. I have mine set to sans-serif and they look great!

masseya · Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2003 5:43 pm Post subject:

Moved from Desktop Environments. Please try searching next time. There are gobs of posts on the forums about menu font tweaks in mozilla. I'm sure you'll be able to get them up and running nicely in no time! :-)

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masseya · Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2003 8:36 pm Post subject:

Moving back to Desktop Envinronments because pathwalker has been unable to find a solution in the mass of threads about Mozilla menu fonts. Hopefully, someone will find a way to get this working for him.
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Konsti · l33t Joined: 10 Dec 2002 Posts: 691

You have to provide much more of information to make us able to help you.

Is your mozilla compiled with gtk1.2 or gtk2?
I think a post of

pathwalker · n00b Joined: 18 Jul 2003 Posts: 26

bash-2.05b$ ldd /usr/lib/mozilla/mozilla-bin
libmozjs.so => /usr/lib/mozilla/libmozjs.so (0x40021000)
libplds4.so => /usr/lib/mozilla/libplds4.so (0x400a0000)
libplc4.so => /usr/lib/mozilla/libplc4.so (0x400a3000)
libnspr4.so => /usr/lib/mozilla/libnspr4.so (0x400a8000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x400dc000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x4012c000)
libgtk-1.2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0 (0x4012f000)
libgdk-1.2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgdk-1.2.so.0 (0x4028e000)
libgmodule-1.2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgmodule-1.2.so.0 (0x402c8000)
libglib-1.2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0 (0x402cb000)
libXi.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXi.so.6 (0x402f1000)
libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x402f9000)
libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x40309000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x403eb000)
libstdc++.so.5 => /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.2.2/libstdc++.so.5 (0x4040e000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.2.2/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x404d9000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x404e1000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
bash-2.05b$

Konsti · l33t Joined: 10 Dec 2002 Posts: 691

pathwalker · n00b Joined: 18 Jul 2003 Posts: 26

that was 100% correct.

Now, onto getting my onboard intel 8x0 sound card to work...

*sigh*

:-)

Droopdude · n00b Joined: 08 Aug 2003 Posts: 48

pathwalker · n00b Joined: 18 Jul 2003 Posts: 26

you can put it in make.conf, or you can do:

USE="gtk2 -gtk" emerge mozilla