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| felice 2004-02-14, 3:33 pm |
| None of the web browsers that came with Redhat 7.3 are displaying
fonts properly (ie no antialiasing). I've tried downloading the GTK2 +
XFT version of firefox from mozilla as suggested elsewhere, but that
doesn't appear to be compatible with 7.3. Is there a way to fix this,
or should I try to get hold of some more up to date CDs? If I do need
CDs, what should I get - RH9, Fedora, a different distribution
altogether? All I want is maximum stability, speed, and compatibility.
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| Rex Dieter 2004-02-16, 2:39 am |
| felice wrote:
> None of the web browsers that came with Redhat 7.3 are displaying
> fonts properly (ie no antialiasing).
RH73 lacks Xft2/fontconfig support, which most modern linux software uses
for rendering antialiased fonts. RH80 and newer include that out of the
box.
Now, if you insist on sticking with rh73, you can try out my experimental(*)
XFree86, Xft2, fontconfig packages for rh73 which *do* include this
support:
ftp://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/xfree86/7.3/RPMS.stable/
-- Rex
(*) experimental = works for me, but totally unsupported (by me or redhat).
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| felice 2004-02-19, 8:35 am |
| Rex Dieter <rdieter@math.unl.edu> skribis:
> Now, if you insist on sticking with rh73, you can try out my experimental(*)
> XFree86, Xft2, fontconfig packages for rh73 which *do* include this
> support:
> ftp://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/xfree86/7.3/RPMS.stable/
Thanks 8) A definite improvement, and it hasn't blown up yet...
felice
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