[KLUG Members] Better fonts in Linux web browsers?

[members@kalamazoolinux.org]

>>Mm.  I'm looking for the RedHat **7.2** src rpm, notice the mentioned URL.
>Okay, I don't know if freetype was an update for 7.2, or came with the
>standard distribution, or both (off hand).

It was updated.  What I have is a genuine RPM that is newer than the one on the
RH72 CD.

>>>>I'm on my RH8 box, where I thought fonts always looks good anyway.  I 
>>>>jacked up the dpi to 100 (edited gdm.conf), restarted gdm, xdpyinfo says
>>>>dpi is 100x100 - and I don't notice a difference.
>>>It doesn't effect all sites.  Look at pricewatch.com before and after.
>>Yikes! Ouch!
>>. . . 
>>Ahhhhhhh.....
>I assume that means you can see the difference now.   :-)

Oh yes.

>I picked 10 random web sites, took a screen shot of each before the 
>change (using the print-screen button in RH 8 - cool feature) and
>that change improved the appearance in about half of them.

So any guess what the issue is with the other half?  Using a font for which a
TTF doesn't exist on the Linux box.

>A FYI, the howto is incomplete/incorrect for how to change that feature
>with a GDM (graphical) login in Redhat 8.0.  It says to change your
>...../xdm/Xservers file.  In RH8, you need to edit the file:
>/etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf  and modify the "command=" line as follows:
>command=/usr/X11R6/bin/X -dpi 120

Right, I did that.  Didn't bother to check the HOWTO,  its obvious.