Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 89545
Option needed to disable anti-aliased fonts
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:53:16 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 Description of problem: mozilla really needs an option to turn off anti-aliasing of fonts. I have had mixed experiences with anti-aliasing on various systems and various apps, and unfortunately anti-aliased fonts on my work system in mozilla look like crap. Not a big deal if I could disable them, but I couldn't find a way to do that. I don't want to disable gnome/gtk-wide, since they look ok in some applications. I ended up downgrading to the mozilla from RedHat 8, which works fine, but if all future versions of mozilla are going to have non-deselectable anti-aliasing, then I'm not going to be able to use newer versions, and that bothers me..... Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mozilla-1.2.1-26 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Run mozilla 2.Look in either awe or disgust at anti-aliased fonts 3..... Profit! Expected Results: I would expect a checkbox in the "Edit/Preferences/Appearance/Fonts" options to allow me to disable anti-aliasing! Additional info:
Yes! Please make a option where you can disable anti-aliased fonts in Mozilla.
Put GDK_USE_XFT=0 in your environment before running mozilla.
Unfortunately, this gives one step forward, and one step back, so doesn't really fix the problem. It made the web pages display fine, but all text inside any basic widgets was too tiny to read. This means text on buttons in the tool bar, and text on buttons and input fields in the browser (for example, text in the input field for Google was too small to read). None of the Font settings seems to affect this at all, so now I'm back to mozilla 1.0.1 again....
There's an upstream bug filed. http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=176334
GDK_USE_XFT=0 does the trick on a Severn+rawhide system. I haven't tried it on a Red Hat 9 system, however.
(oops, sorry about the double post)