[ale] fonts and gdm

[Jim Philips]

I had the same problem with recent versions of Gnome. You can try different 
fonts, but I never got past it. I'm using KDE now. Mozilla looks fine, 
because it uses its own fonts. I don't think anti-aliasing is the issue, but 
the font that the system is calling simply doesn't exist in that point size, 
so X throws out a bit-mapped representation of the letter. All anti-aliasing 
does is give you an apparent improvement in resolution. I say "apparent" 
because the resolution doesn't change, but some extra pixels are thrown in 
around the edges to give it a smoother look. But even without this effect, 
most X fonts are quite readable. It's the bit-mapping that can't be read 
easily.

On Saturday 13 July 2002 04:09 pm, John Wells wrote:
> I recently wiped my system and installed RedHat 7.3.  Now, when I connect
> to the system with various clients using gdm, the fonts look block and
> non-anti-aliased (well, one weird note is that they look fine in this
> mozilla text bot I'm writing in).
>
> To be exact, the fonts on the apps (menus, etc.) look large and black, but
> anti-aliased.
> The fonts on gnome-terminal are non-anti-aliased.
> The fonts in this mozilla textarea look fine.


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