FS#2185 - Xorg 6.8.2 and Fonts

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by natan zohar (whatah) - Friday, 11 February 2005, 21:11 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category System
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture not specified
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7 Wombat
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 0%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

I just installed xorg 6.8.2 off of the testing server, but the fonts are kind of large (in fluxbox titles and gtk2 text), It seems that I can't initialize the Speedo module in the xorg.conf and the local/ and speedo/ font directories aren't recognized as valid. The fonts won't fix themselves by modifying gtkrc.
   fontconfig-defaultconfig.patch (0.3 KiB)
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Closed by  Judd Vinet (judd)
Sunday, 03 April 2005, 19:09 GMT
Reason for closing:  Works for me
Comment by Rafal Szczepaniak (lanrat) - Saturday, 12 February 2005, 18:22 GMT
AFAIR speedo support has been removed from xorg some time ago:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/pipermail/release-wranglers/2004-April/000591.html
Remove speedo module from xorg.conf and it should be fine.

Also I think you should try reinstallation of all your font packages or at least running fc-cache as root.I hope that helps.
Comment by Judd Vinet (judd) - Tuesday, 22 February 2005, 18:28 GMT
Any other fluxbox users having this problem?
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Saturday, 05 March 2005, 20:28 GMT
Our fonts.conf is causing the problem. Whenever you enable the autohinter, fonts start to look really bad. The stock fontconfig gets overwritten by our own version, that hasn't been updated since a while.

Please patch the fonts.conf.in file with the attached patch and get rid of the local.conf file too. Other option is to leave the local.conf as it is and provide the stock fonts.conf, but we shouldn't just "copy over" our own version.
Comment by Simo Leone (neotuli) - Sunday, 03 April 2005, 03:33 GMT
[bug squashing day prelims]
This issue (ugly fonts+autohinter) is already being addressed in bug#2033.

The speedo line should be removed, so as not to confuse people with the error messages it'll generate.
Comment by Damir Perisa (damir.perisa) - Sunday, 03 April 2005, 15:55 GMT
speedo module line should be removed

about the size of the fonts:
in the /etc/X11/xorg.conf you must specify the DisplaySize in the monitor section (in milimeters width heigh):

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "LCD"
DisplaySize 306 231
HorizSync 28-95
ModelName "FlexView 1600X1200"
Option "dpms"
EndSection

and in /etc/fonts/local.conf

you must specify the DPI (dots per inch) for your screen:

<match target="pattern">
<edit name="dpi" mode="assign"><double>132</double></edit>
</match>

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