I have installed sarge and i have crap looking fonts with gtk 1.2 and wx apps.

I have found out that packages gsfonts-x11 is the cause of the crap looking fonts ( for example with dillo, xmms file selection dialog, guitar, audacity menus ).
The problem is that if i uninstall it, for the session fonts become good, then if i restart the X server fonts are still ok but so small that are nearly unreadable. And for example in the audacity level meter and about window, they are extremely blocky.

I have already searched for a similar problem with google and in this problem but actually i haven't found a solution.

Packages installed:
fontconfig
gsfonts
libfontconfig1
libfontconfig1-dev
psfontmgr
ttf-freefont
x-ttcidfont-conf
xfonts-75dpi
xfonts-base
xfonts-scalable
xfonts-terminus

Xserver configuration:
<code>
FontPath "unix/:7100" # local font server
# if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these
#FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType/"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
</code>

Thank you in advance.

I don't know if it'll work but there is also a package xfonts-100dpi

I forgot to say that adding this package changes nothing. Thank you anyway for the hint.

have you tried installing a gtk 1.2 theme. That helped a lot with the issues I was having with lets say xmms menus

#apt-get -y install x-ttcidfont-conf

In the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file, add these 2 lines at the beginning:

FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/CID"
FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"

make sure the following line is last in the list:

FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"

The end result should look like this:

Section "Files"
FontPath "unix/:7100" #local font server
# if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these
FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/CID"
FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
EndSection

#reboot

Tried this too .

Thank you.
x-ttcidfont is installed but i'll touch the XF86Config-4 in order to make the changes.
Now i have launched the ppp from a terminal in X so i'll try later.

With sarge in testing state ( i have installed it on another pc and still haven't upgraded ) this step wasn't needed.

Anyway reboot isn't needed ( rebooting in linux is almost never needed ), it's enought to kill the xserver ( ctrl + alt + backspace ), and a new startx.

I have tried this way too, but the directory /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/CID is empty, and nothing changes .
Does someone with Sarge stable and a good looking fonts in gtk 1.2 apps can post his fonts-related packages ( e.g. with dpkg --get-selections |grep -i font ) and/or XF86Config-4 ?

craig@moses:~$ dpkg --get-selections |grep -i font
cmatrix-xfont
fix-fonts
fontconfig
fonts-ttf-decoratives
fonts-ttf-west-european
gsfonts
gsfonts-x11
latex-xft-fonts
libfontconfig1
libfontconfig1-dev
mplayer-fonts
msttcorefonts
psfontmgr
ttf-freefont
tv-fonts
unifont
x-ttcidfont-conf
xfonts-100dpi
xfonts-100dpi-transcoded
xfonts-75dpi
xfonts-75dpi-transcoded
xfonts-artwiz
xfonts-base
xfonts-base-transcoded
xfonts-bolkhov-cp1251-75dpi
xfonts-bolkhov-cp1251-misc
xfonts-dosemu
xfonts-efont-unicode
xfonts-intl-european
xfonts-konsole
xfonts-scalable
xfonts-terminus
xfonts-terminus-dos
xfonts-x3270-misc

I run Sid with XFree86, but I don't see where the difference with fonts would be. My fonts look as good as they did when I ran windows.

Thank you, i'll try to install all the fonts you have.

When they looked good, they were as good as windows one with gtk 1.2 / lesstiff apps, and better for other apps.

I myself had an issue that in a sense looked barely like yours....

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=335833

....maybe this is a silly post, but it may help you...I hope.

Greetings,

JuanJavier.

Thank you a lot, craigevil: problem solved!

I'll take a look also to the thread pointed out.

I haven't still checked what is the package that has solved the problem, anyway now i have these fonts and everything is ok .
Soon or later i'll try to uninstall some of them in order to have a minimal but perfectly working install ( already did it with cyrillic and eastern european fonts ).

fontconfig
gsfonts
gsfonts-x11
latex-xft-fonts
libfontconfig1
libfontconfig1-dev
psfontmgr
ttf-freefont
unifont
x-ttcidfont-conf
xfonts-100dpi
xfonts-100dpi-transcoded
xfonts-75dpi
xfonts-75dpi-transcoded
xfonts-artwiz
xfonts-base
xfonts-base-transcoded
xfonts-dosemu
xfonts-intl-european
xfonts-konsole
xfonts-scalable
xfonts-terminus
xfonts-terminus-dos