Re: Serious display problem

>
> On Saturday 24 September 2005 02:36 pm, J.M. Maurer wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 13:57 -0400, David Raleigh Arnold wrote:
>> > Still a serious problem with abiword. Are there any debian
>> > users left at all? Typing "Now is" I get "Now s" and it
>> > doesn't get any better. This is supposedly a resolved bug, and
>> > the developers, if I understand correctly, blamed it on the
>> > vid driver.
>> >
>> > I used the autopackage and installed as root. As a user,
>> > I still have the problem, but if I start in a root terminal
>> > abiword appears to be ok. I uninstalled as root and installed
>> > as a user. Once I found where the binary had been put I
>> > found nothing changed. It only works properly when invoked
>> > as root.
>>
>> Do you happen to have turned off font antialiassing?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Could I have? That's not a menu item in 'preferences' or anywhere
> else as far as I can tell, so if I turned it off some time in the past,
> how
> do I turn it on again? daveA
>

The font aliasing is controlled across entire computer. Gnome has a handy
configuration tool. Browse under prefrences and fonts on your
gnome-desktop.

Damm. Gotta get Keith Packard to fix this.

Martin

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Received on Sun Sep 25 15:50:05 2005