Aliased Fonts in Xombrero

[Arthur Chance]

On 13/02/2015 16:19, Dutch Ingraham wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 04:59:00PM +0100, Maurizio Vairani wrote:
>> Il 13/02/2015 16:15, Dutch Ingraham ha scritto:
>>> Hello all:
>>>
>>> I'm having a problem with severe aliasing in Xombrero.  This only
>>> happens on certain sites such as github and computerworld.  Most other
>>> sites render fine.
>>>
>>> I have followed the handbook at section 6.6. and here are the fonts I
>>> have installed:
>> Hi,
>
>> in my laptop I have removed the two directories:
>>
>> /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi
>> /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi
>>
>> and Firefox looks like in Windows.
>>
>> If you need more fonts you can look at this excellent guide:
>> https://cooltrainer.org/a-freebsd-desktop-howto/#install-fonts
>>
>> Maurizio
>>
>>
> Thanks, Maurizio.  Looks like others arrived at the same conclusion:
> http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/140333/blurred-75-100-dpi-
> xorg-font-packages-with-webkit
>
> I have the same issue with that poster, i.e., I'm not sure what
> cascading effect removing those legacy fonts may have.

What happens if you reorganise the FontPath directives in /etc/xorg.conf 
so the {100,75}dpi directories come last? I'm fairly certain the 
directories are searched in order.

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