Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 23:28:01 +0100, andy wrote:
>
>> Florian Kulzer wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 21:35:50 +0100, andy wrote:
>>>
>
> [...]
>
>
>>>> I have yet to try changing fontconfig/hinting_type to "Native" but will
>>>> when a decent reason to shut X down presents in terms of work flow.
>>>>
>>>> Any thoughts on the conf file settings?
>>>>
>>> The fons.conf file is consistent with your Xft settings. Which desktop
>>> environment or WM are you using?
>>>
>>>
>> Sorry - forgot you asked me that. I predominantly use Gnome, but switch to
>> Xfce from time-to-time. I login using GDM.
>>
>
> Then I don't have any idea what could mess with your font settings. I
> have meanwhile checked out xmms and indeed the fonts look worse (though
> not as bad as in my intentionally screwed up iceweasel screenshot):
>
> http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer/...xmms-fonts.png
>
> (Umlauts seem to work fine, so there does not seem to be a fundamental
> problem with using xmms in an *.UTF-8 locale.)
>
> On the other hand, you should never have such problems with iceweasel.
> It would if you could put a few example screenshots somewhere. I am
> starting to suspect that I might be barking up the wrong tree with the
> hinting business.
>
>
Florian

You are a generous person - thank you. The snapshot of Xmms you display
(+ Husker Du :-) ) pretty much echoes what I was thinking of. I am less
concerned with Iceweasel, but I guess that it must be something to do
with GTk*, although what I couldn't imagine. I am not keen on throwing
yet more fonts at the problem without understanding more of what it is
that is causing the problem. But maybe it is just GTk*?

Thanks for your assist Florian. Much obliged

Andy

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