This must be related to the GTK 1.x engine that's used with XFCE 4. I say that because the font in the type location box (Ctrl+L) has the same ugliness that Dillo renders websites with, and this font is the same as used by the menus at the top of Multi-Gnome-Terminal. But on GTK 2.x programs I get a nice anti-aliased font for the menus. J-Pilot, a GTK app, was recently converted from 1.x to 2.x. Before the upgrade fonts were terrible; now they're smooth. KDE must use a slightly different configuration for GTK 1.x apps; on the wife's computer, both Dillo and Multi-Gnome-Terminal use nice fonts for the menus, location box (Dillo, Ctrl+L), and when Dillo renders HTML. I have the same versions of GTK 1.x and 2.x on both machines. XFCE 4 is GTK 2.x-based. Do I *have* to install a heavy window manager to use a light web browser? Not fair :( Livio Baldini Soares wrote:
Chris, regarding your Debian box, make sure you have correctly configured your '/etc/fonts/local.conf' configuration file. Specifically, I have found that most Debian default installations disable bitmapped fonts, due to the use of anti-aliased or truetype fonts used in most applications and/or window managers. Uncomment the lines around: <dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts</dir>
After you do that, run:
$ defoma-reconfigure and $ fc-cache -f
No gold.
Another issue is that fonts with "odd" sizes are butt-ugly. In this respect, try adding 0.1 to your "font_factor" variable in your dillorc file (if it's 1.0 set it to 1.1, if it's 1.1 set it to 1.2, for example). It usually makes very little difference in the final font size, but makes it a _big_ difference in scalability.
No difference. Thanks for the attempt. higuita wrote:
try
"-misc-fixed-*-*-*--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1"
Same.
probably kde installed truetype fonts... try to do the xfontsel in that computer and compare then
I don't think you mean xfontsel because that just lets me see what fonts look like, it doesn't show which my X server is using. Jorge Arellano Cid said:
This is a problem with your machine's installed fonts, not with Dillo.
Never doubted that for a second, especially when exactly the same Dillo binary and config file worked at home. Just writing this list because I don't know where else to look.
I'm not a Debian user, but most probably you left out a set of "legacy" fonts that Dillo requires.
Wish that were true... I've installed every font package the other machine has.
Maybe the fastest solution is to check the font-specific .debs of your wife's cpmputer against yours, once this is done update the font cache, restart X and retry.
I compared font packages on both machines and ensured both had the same packages installed. Some were missing, so I installed them, updated the font cache, restarted X. No joy. xlsfonts shows exactly the same fonts on both machines. X on both machines are now using strictly xfs for fonts. I think I'll just give up using Dillo for now... it hurts the eyes too much.