Re: [K12OSN] Re: fonts in netscape on workstation

Eric Harrison (eharrison@mail.mesd.k12.or.us)
Sun, 28 Apr 2002 16:38:55 -0700 (PDT)


On Sun, 28 Apr 2002, Julius Szelagiewicz wrote:

>John,
>	there is nothing inherent in mozilla that would preclude it's use
>with HOD. the argument is purely pragmatic: it just doesn't work with any
>of the sites i need to access and in all fairness works even worse than
>netscape on most sites.
>	as to fonts: i got 2 excellent replies, one from Peter Billson and
>another from Gary Frankenbery. the first pointed me to fonts made by
>Daniel Richard G. specifically to make font sizes same on linux and
>windoze, < http://www.elbnet.com/fanwood/source> and the other pointed me
>to an article with very good description of what i should do to improve
>the fonts in netscape. 

Thanks, I'll look at merging those into K12LTSP. Also note there is a 
script, /usr/X11R6/bin/fetchmsttfonts, that will download a bunch of 
truetype fonts and install them.

>	both approches depend on using xfs. Does anybody know what do i
>need to do to make Xvesa use X font server?

In lts.conf...

        USE_XFS            = Y

-Eric



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