On Sunday 25 September 2005 09:49 am, msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au
wrote:
>
> >
> > On Saturday 24 September 2005 02:36 pm, J.M. Maurer wrote:
> >>
> >> On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 13:57 -0400, David Raleigh Arnold wrote:
> >> > Still a serious problem with abiword. Are there any debian
> >> > users left at all? Typing "Now is" I get "Now s" and it
> >> > doesn't get any better. This is supposedly a resolved bug, and
> >> > the developers, if I understand correctly, blamed it on the
> >> > vid driver.
> >> >
> >> > I used the autopackage and installed as root. As a user,
> >> > I still have the problem, but if I start in a root terminal
> >> > abiword appears to be ok. I uninstalled as root and installed
> >> > as a user. Once I found where the binary had been put I
> >> > found nothing changed. It only works properly when invoked
> >> > as root.
> >>
> >> Do you happen to have turned off font antialiassing?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Could I have? That's not a menu item in 'preferences' or anywhere
> > else as far as I can tell, so if I turned it off some time in the
past,
> > how
> > do I turn it on again? daveA
> >
>
> The font aliasing is controlled across entire computer. Gnome has a
handy
> configuration tool. Browse under prefrences and fonts on your
> gnome-desktop.
Not using gnome, although that probably would work, because I have it
and I can use it. Kde's configuration and menus are unreachable for
some reason. I already found '.font.conf' and fixed the problem in a
second. A clue is all it took.
> > Damm. Gotta get Keith Packard to fix this.
If you think it's too gnarly for 'preferences', perhaps there could
be a 'system options' submenu with a cautionary message that they
are just for troubleshooting, and display such options which are not
defaults in red? This was really annoying. Thanks again. daveA
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