Re: [PLUG] Ugly Fonts Again

[Paul <paul@dpagin.net>]

Will Dyson wrote:

> Dunno about the RH packages, but in Debian there is a separate
> Mozilla-xft package to install that will cause Mozilla to use the XFT
> library for rendering (instead of regular old X fonts).
>  

Thanks for the tip. My solution: "./configure --enable-xft"

It took an amazing amount of time to compile Mozilla.  I'm talking hours 
using a 600MHz CPU.  Should I have sought more guidence than 
"./configure --help |grep xft" had to offer?

Oh, I did try using "checkinstall" to create an RPM.  It got to the 
point where is said "Installation Successful", but it never finished 
doing whatever it does.  So I just ran "make install" and was done with it.

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