Filipe Brandenburger wrote:
Hi,
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 17:03, Ryan Pugatchrpug@tripadvisor.com wrote:
Would you care to show the output of "rpm -qi freetype"?
Yes, I changed the variable in the spec and installed the RPM I built. I am on a 64-bit machine but did not install a 32-bit RPM.
Looks like there are two versions.. the original and mine. What should I do?
If you have problems on 32-bit applications (I, for instance, used to run a 32-bit Firefox on a 64-bit machine to get Flash support without nspluginwrapper) you should build a 32-bit RPM and install it too.
You can do that with this command:
$ LDFLAGS=-m32 rpmbuild --target i386 -bb freetype.spec
You might need to install glibc-devel.i386 and libX11-devel.i386 to build that one.
I also noticed that you rebuilt 2.2.1-20 while 2.2.1-21.el5_3 is available, you might want to update it to the latest.
I actually had a look at your last screenshot, and it does not seem too bad... It looks like the quality is already much better, I believe BCI is already working for you. If you still feel that an improvement is needed, then you might want to switch to the msttcorefonts, you might need to do that in Thunderbird's preferences though.
HTH, Filipe _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
I agree that it looks better, but it doesn't seem to be as good as Ubuntu. I have Thunderbird using the msttcorefonts.
Should rpm -qi freetype show both my built version and the other one as well?
I don't remember how I ended up with the slightly older verison, but I can try updating.
There's got to be some setting I'm missing that makes the fonts look just a bit better, because I think they still look rough.
I have a screenshot from an Xubuntu install that I did and you can see the terminal in the shot. http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/6611/screenshotohr.png
Not exactly the best comparison, but you can see the terminal text is quite a bit clearer than on CentOS: http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/4382/centk.jpg
Thanks for your help, by the way.
Ryan