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Daedra, was there ever a post somewhere where you had screenshots of each of the different patches applied? Looking through this thread you mentioned you were going to do so, but nothing after...
I only have screenshots of my patches and settings, not Dugan's since I never used his patches. But you can get screenshots of mine in the above post, and you can see Dugan's over at his website at http://www.vcn.bc.ca/~dugan/slackware-fonts/
I did what said, but it didn't work. This is somehow weird, fonts in some programs (firefox,Thunar,thunderbird,and etc) work great, but in other programs, like Opera, seamonkey, libreoffice, the font rendering is not good at all.
I am using xfce now, and I guess that i have to do more readings.
Thanks
I am not running 32bit so I can't be sure, but the reason some of those programs may not be displaying the fonts correctly is because they are using there own static libraries of cairo. I checked the source of seamonkey and noticed that it doesn't use the flag --enable-system-cairo which may be causing it to use its own internal version which would bypass the font patches you applied. I can't confirm this ,, but I may throw 32bit on a old partiton later today and test the theory, Ill let you know .
Daedra, thanks for the follow up, FYI, fonts in most other programs don't look good. BTW, if it takes too much effort, then forgot about it, so far I am using Firefox primarily, it works great.
Hi daedra. I followed your directions to get better looking screen fonts but it didn't work for me. The fonts are the same. I rebooted, still no change. I'm running slackware 13.37. Can you give me any advice to get the fonts looking better?
Hi daedra. I followed your directions to get better looking screen fonts but it didn't work for me. The fonts are the same. I rebooted, still no change. I'm running slackware 13.37. Can you give me any advice to get the fonts looking better?
Did you follow the instructions exactly in post 212?
Yes I did. I downloaded each file, untarred it. ran the sh file which downloaded the tar.gz, then ran the slackbuild file. I did that for each one of them. Then I copied your fonts.conf to my home directory and renamed it .fonts.conf. Rebooted. No change in appearance of the fonts in firefox, pidgin, xchat or thunderbird. So far those are the only apps I've run.
upgradepkg? no. installpkg I believe (I'm new to slackware.. I can't remember offhand how I did it but it did, probably installpkg, but I did not see any command error output from teh console.
That's probably your problem, you need to upgradepkg not installpkg. What I would do at this point is log out of X then as root run "pkgtool" then select remove packages. Then remove all the freetype, libXft, and Cairo packages. Once there all completely removed. then you can run installpkg on the packages you made from my builds.
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