[Opera-Linux] Font problems in Slack12

[Álvaro Martínez]

2007/8/27, Eirik Byrkjeflot Anonsen <eirik at opera.com>:
>
> 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
>
I didn't touch the font preferences, but after solving the problem (trying
to solve something else) I notice that the Windows fonts I installed before
weren't actually installed.
I don't know why, the KControl font installer didn't copy
the Windows fonts (I copy them from the other partition... yes, my brother &
sister "need" windows hehe).
I have all the fonts installed now, maybe I should try to enable the X
fonts again, to see what happens.

Thanks Eirik for the explanation.


Regards.
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