[Opera-Linux] Font problems in Slack12

[Eirik Byrkjeflot Anonsen]

Alvlin <alvlin.uy at gmail.com> writes:

> El 25 Agosto  2007, Eugene Paskevich escribió:
>> On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 23:25:08 +0300, Alvlin <alvlin.uy at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Anything else I should check?
>>
>> Try disabling 'Core X Fonts' on opera:config
>
> That's IT!!!
>
> Thanks a lot Eugene... I think that I would never find that option by myself
>
> Is there any doc explaining what it does?
> Or explaining about some of the options on opera:config?
>
> Thanks again.

That particular setting disables all "standard" X fonts.

Since that worked, it means that opera for some reason felt that the
"standard" X fonts were better than the available xft fonts.  Which is
rather strange.  There's basically two cases where this is sort of
expected behaviour: cjk (chinese, japanese, korean) pages and when
specific fonts are requested, which only exist as "standard" X fonts.

To illustrate the second case: If the page asks for "helvetica", and
you have a "standard" X font named "helvetica", but no xft font by
that name.  Then we would most likely use the "standard" X font.
Possibly the font settings in opera preferences is set to such a font?

eirik