[LUGSB] mozilla fonts problem

[Dongdong Ge]

Hi,I am a newbie in linux. I am running redhat 9 on my machine.And I
upgrade my mozilla from 1.2 to 1.7b yesterday. Then the fonts of it become
really think and fuzzy. I searched the web and all posts talk about xft
setup, upgrade gtk, sth like that, which really make confused. Is there
any simple expanation you can give me? Thanks a lot!

Dongdong
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From: "John R. Hover" <jhover at ic.sunysb.edu>
Subject: Re: [LUGSB] mozilla fonts problem
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How did you upgrade to 1.7b?

By default, the mozilla installs available from mozilla.org are not 
compiled with xft, which is used under Redhat 9 and makes the fonts 
prettier/smoother ( this is called anti-aliasing).

On the other hand, you said that your fonts became "fuzzy". Maybe you 
actually prefer to *not* have your fonts anti-aliased. I've heard that 
some people do, although I am not in that group.

In any case, at this point you should really only install software 
packaged as RPMs, either through Redhat's up2date, Ximian's Red Carpet, 
or Apt/Synaptic (all are package managers that let you update software 
over the network). If you need help with these, just ask.

And if you're new you *definitely* shouldn't be installing beta software 
( software where the version number ends with the letter 'b' ). If you 
tell us how you installed it we can help you get it uninstalled.

If you want a more recent version of mozilla than is available from 
up2date, you can search for RPMs on the internet. A quick search for 
"redhat 9" "mozilla 1.6" and "xft" found:

http://pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/yum/SeaMonkey/releases/1.6/redhat/9/i386/

Download these, then as root do a 'rpm -Uvh *.rpm' in the directory 
where they are. But you should deal with that after you've gotten rid of 
1.7b.

You can have the latest, bleeding edge software OR you can avoid having 
to tinker or deal with problems. Take your pick.

Cheers,

--john


Dongdong Ge wrote:
> Hi,I am a newbie in linux. I am running redhat 9 on my machine.And I
> upgrade my mozilla from 1.2 to 1.7b yesterday. Then the fonts of it become
> really think and fuzzy. I searched the web and all posts talk about xft
> setup, upgrade gtk, sth like that, which really make confused. Is there
> any simple expanation you can give me? Thanks a lot!
> 
> Dongdong
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