From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/5114 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: linux question / lucida fonts Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 12:33:29 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20010718122652.02b4d378@server-1> References: <5.1.0.14.1.20010717104534.02096e08@server-1> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035395726 31350 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:55:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:55:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: Tobias Burnus In-Reply-To: <3B5446BD.7C7D0144@net-b.de> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:5114 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:5114 At 04:07 PM 7/17/2001 +0200, Tobias Burnus wrote: I installed / updated all modules [takes w hole day to download] and the problem is now in the windows manager. >For a better font quality you simply need to install the microsoft true >type fonts by using /usr/X11R6/bin/fetchmsttfonts. (Check that >/etc/X11/XF86Config contains FontPath >"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype"). The advantage is that this is a >scalable font (there are tons of bitmap fonts) and that with >qt-experimental (I think the packages is called like this) all Qt >applications can use antialising for fonts (XFree86 rendering >extention). aha, i will look into that ! this also brings up the lucida again: maybe it's worth to look into making a nice setup for them, since they are in linux as well as windows right distribution: RedHat, SuSE or Debian. I think for you Hans, Debias >wouldn't be the best choice since it is an "expert" distribution ;-) ah, that would make me an expert -) Let me know what linux you will choose! >mc is a kind of Norton Commander, but I think Hans is not that fast >confused ;-) -) BTW, on windows i use 4dos/4NT; going back to command.com is then a nightmare > > Yes, they should. Most likely cause: incorrect (read: partial) update to > > Xfree4. >So think I. one thing i found out is that after an install, you need to wait an hour to let the background jobs finish; suse launches them late and some of their results are needed ! > Do you get any kind of error when you start X? >You can also look at /var/log/XFree86.0.log indeed, and there it now looks ok, Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------