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03-16-2006, 08:54 PM
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Distribution: Slack 10.2, kernel 2.4.31 on a Dell Inspiron 1150 Laptop
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font looks scratchy in slax; likewise in full install?
I'm running Slax (live CD) on my Dell 1150 and I find that the fonts are rather scratchy in appearance. If I dump Windows and put Slackware onto my computer, will that be what I look at then? It all looks typed or something. I tried other live CD distros and they were neater somehow. I ran xconf and then startx. Perhaps the defaults aren't necessarily the ideal? 
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03-16-2006, 09:03 PM
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Registered: Jan 2006
Location: Vulcan
Distribution: *buntu - Slackware - Anything on USB
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If you are running KDE, you can change the fonts in the control center. When you are in the control center you can click on appearance and then fonts. I've always had to make them bigger and then choose a different font. I don't know why they look so bad.
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03-16-2006, 09:58 PM
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Distribution: Slack 10.2, kernel 2.4.31 on a Dell Inspiron 1150 Laptop
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Is it a question of downloading truetype fonts? I see in an announcement on slackware dot org about an earlier release, there's information about improved font handling. It must be something to do with the Slax minimal live CD. Sorry, this must be really obvious to others but I need to know what I'm in for. There's nothing that Slackware can't do, theoretically, but I don't want to spend my days looking at scratchy fonts 
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03-16-2006, 10:05 PM
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Location: Vulcan
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The first time I made a custom SLAX CD, all the fonts look exactly like you described. I fixed them through the KDE Control Center.
Slackware didn't look like that at all. I think it is just the default settings for SLAX, that make it look the way it does. The only change I made in Slackware, was the font size. And that's only because I can't see as well as I used to!
I can give you some good Slackware links if you want. I also got a package somewhere with over 1000 fonts. Can't remember where I got them, though.
Give Slackware a try!
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03-18-2006, 06:17 AM
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Distribution: Slack 10.2, kernel 2.4.31 on a Dell Inspiron 1150 Laptop
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Hello and thank you again for your help yesterday. I have now installed Slackware, and Windows XP is no longer on the computer. Hooray. My use of xorgconfig to generate a xorg.conf file was unsuccessful. I am using a Dell Inspiron 1150, but I'm not sure where to look up the video specs. I did recall that Slax worked well, (xconf, then startx), although it had scratchy fonts. But at least the X-windows started. So I copied the /etc/X11/xorg.conf that Slax generates into my new installation, and now X-windows starts as a part of my installation. But the fonts are awful. Ugh. Drawings are very nice to look at, no problem there. Obviously the screen is being used well by something. But what can I do about these scratchy letters? I went to Control Center, Font Installer, and I'm not sure how to actually install any of the fonts... and anyway they look pretty bad too. So what's the answer? 
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03-18-2006, 07:11 AM
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Thanks for the lead! 
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03-18-2006, 10:16 AM
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Registered: Dec 2005
Location: UK
Distribution: Slackware 12.1
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ctos
Thanks for the lead! 
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You are welcome.
Try out some of the options in that thread and come back here and let us know how you have got on with it.
Getting the fonts to my liking was the most time-consuming thing I have encountered in Linux to date. It is worth the time though.
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03-18-2006, 10:24 PM
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I think for now I'm going to be content with anti-aliasing (if I understand correctly that makes them a bit neater--or my eyes may be fooling me). I have to first concentrate on getting caught up on very basic sysadmin stuff. I bought Welsh's book today, and Linux Desktop Hacks, which should be very helpful. Mostly it's the fonts with curves or diagonals that have problems. And not always--for example, just above here where it says "Previous thread", the "v" is clean. But in this text box it is thicker on one side than the other. Ah well, someday I'll look into it. First things first...
I hope I'm not being a bore or saying something too obvious, but in case another newbie wants to ask the same question, in Konqueror I pressed the "Decrease Font Sizes" button on the "Main Toolbar", and that basically squelched the problem. So if you don't need glasses to see the small letters... A quick solution for the interim.
Last edited by ctos; 03-18-2006 at 10:29 PM.
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03-19-2006, 12:07 AM
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I think I just realized why I don't quite have the same problem. I have the Nvidia drivers loaded on the SLAX CD I use most and Slackware. I have never changed more than the font size on both.
I remember the fonts on the stock SLAX CD (w/o Nvidia) looking just horrible. I just burned another copy with the Nvidia drivers on a CDRW, changed the fonts and saved it. Then I burned the CDRW again with the saved settings.
I guess that's why I didn't ever see it as a big problem.
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03-19-2006, 01:49 PM
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Registered: Oct 2005
Distribution: Slackware 14.1
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