tc 3.7, Xlibs, Xprogs - what happened with the fonts!?

[netnomad]

my dear friends,

3.7 is a great piece of work!
but nevertheless there seems to be a little bug: what happened with the fonts?
in midori the small standard fonts a hard to read and after increasing the size per strg-+ the fonts are bolded and fat.

i tried it with microcore plus fluxbox, but i think it's the same behaviour in tinycore.
all my packages, especially the Xlibs and the Xprogs are up-to-date.

perhaps there is something you should know:
i've noticed that i use some more fonts that are in my onboot.lst, f.e. Xorg-fonts.tcz.
... and i load some fonts over my restored backup to
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts:
Arial.ttf, Comic_Sans_MS.ttf, Times_New_Roman.ttf, Webdings.ttf

thanks for your help.

[curaga]

Which fonts does Midori use?

edit: I did a quick test, and the Luxi fonts indeed look bad. They are the default Xorg ones, but they are last in priority IIRC, I wonder why you don't get your other fonts used.

Anyway, I changed the fonts in Midori preferences from the defaults "Sans" and "Monospace" to others. This fixed the pages, the menus needed setting the gtk default font via gtk2_prefs.

[ETP]

No problems with 3.7 rc3 but on copying bzImage & tinycore.gz over to my FAT32 USB stick from the mounted ISO as usual, the system would only boot to the core. Error message:

Warning! Errors occured during the loading of the extensions. Request for /mnt/sdc1/tcany ignored. Not supported on Read-only file system.

The MD5 sum was confirmed before mounting the ISO. The system stats show:


rootfs on / type rootfs (rw,size=512484k,nr_inodes=128121)
tmpfs on / type tmpfs (rw,relatime,size=929992k)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,relatime)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,relatime)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,relatime,mode=600)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,relatime)
/dev/sdc1 on /mnt/sdc1 type vfat (rw,relatime,fmask=0000,dmask=0000,allow_utime=0022,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro)

The relevant parts of my syslinux.cfg are:


LABEL tcany
MENU LABEL TinyCore Any PC  16/06/11
KERNEL /tcany/boot/bzImage
APPEND initrd=/tcany/boot/tinycore.gz quiet noswap nodhcp kmap=qwerty/uk nozswap noicons waitusb=5 tce=UUID="24FA-F04D"/tcany

LABEL tc
MENU LABEL TinyCore 3.7     16/06/11
KERNEL /tc/boot/bzImage
APPEND initrd=/tc/boot/tinycore.gz quiet noswap nodhcp kmap=qwerty/uk nozswap waitusb=5 tce=sdc1/tc

Unless I have missed something fundemental about 3.7, it would appear to be treating VFAT volumes as though they were NTFS read only !

[netnomad]

what happened with this thread!?
ETP posted a new theme in this thread?

hi curaga,
now i' m using aral in font size 18 and it's better, but not really good.
the monospace font can't be changed in my configuration.
what do you think is the origin of these font problems?
is it the Xlibs?

who should be informed about this bug?

[curaga]

The updated freetype enables some new features. They have been supported in other distros for many releases, and generally the other distros just stopped using bad fonts.

You can also turn these features off (hinting mainly), see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Font_Configuration