Re: firebird fonts horrible and thin

In article <bfa62o$kkg$>,
says...
> Hi. I am using linux mandrake 9.1 and mozilla 1.3. Fonts look great
> under Mozilla. I downloaded Firebird to test and the font selections are
> different (the list of possible fonts to choose), and the
> fonts-in-windows, and the webpage fonts are thinner than the equiv.
> Mozilla fonts. Anyone know how to change this? And how might I 'get' the
> fonts I know I have (eg Verdana) as I have just successfully got them to
> work in Mozilla having copied over from my windows box?
>
> Any ideas greatly appreciated.

You probably have Mozilla configured with "--enable-xft"
whereas Firebird is probably isn't. At least that's the
situation on my RH9 system. I've not tried building
Firebird from sources -- I guess that's doable.

Gunther

Gunther wrote:
> In article <bfa62o$kkg$>,
> says...
>
>>Hi. I am using linux mandrake 9.1 and mozilla 1.3. Fonts look great
>>under Mozilla. I downloaded Firebird to test and the font selections are
>>different (the list of possible fonts to choose), and the
>>fonts-in-windows, and the webpage fonts are thinner than the equiv.
>>Mozilla fonts. Anyone know how to change this? And how might I 'get' the
>>fonts I know I have (eg Verdana) as I have just successfully got them to
>>work in Mozilla having copied over from my windows box?
>>
>>Any ideas greatly appreciated.
>
>
> You probably have Mozilla configured with "--enable-xft"
> whereas Firebird is probably isn't. At least that's the
> situation on my RH9 system. I've not tried building
> Firebird from sources -- I guess that's doable.

I had a look at the config by typing about:config in the browser address
bar. In neither Mozilla nor Firebird was there a mention of xft. Would
you know how else I can access configuration for these? I'm slowly
learning but have not got that far yet.