replying to my own post, with more data: i tried a full-blown X server instead of the tinyx/kdrive server, and everything worked fine. i've also discovered that the "smudging" of the fonts changes depending on what font i choose, and how big i choose to make it. "courier 16" looks very different than "courier 14", for instance. (the screenshots in the links below are "times roman 14", by the way.) so i'm thinking this problem has to do with font scaling. tiny-x doesn't seem to support a font server -- fonts must be served locally. so now i'm trying to figure out how to tell my app (it's a gtk2 app) to use a non-scaled font. is there magic syntax i can put in .gtkrc-2.0 to prevent the use of scaled fonts? a more list-specific question: i assume my tiny-x doesn't support font servers because when i used "-fp 'tcp/192.168.1.11:7100'", it said it "discarded" that element of the font path. am i right that tiny-x doesn't support a font server? paul > i've installed the Xfbdev server from the current Debian "testing" > release. the hardware is an embedded MIPS little-endian device, though > it's a complete enough system to run "real" debian -- not a stripped > version of some sort. > > i've captured three samples of the problem. the first two are > from the "roadmap" application, the third is the "minitime" clock running > under matchbox's mbdock app. the fourth is of rxvt, and shows that not > all text is affected -- just the title bar. you'll also note that in > most cases, not every character is affected. > > http://www.foxharp.boston.ma.us/tmp/about.jpg > http://www.foxharp.boston.ma.us/tmp/menus.jpg > http://www.foxharp.boston.ma.us/tmp/minitime.jpg > http://www.foxharp.boston.ma.us/tmp/rxvtprob.jpg > > can someone suggest what this system might be missing, or, if it looks > like a bug, where it might live, and how to work around it? > > i'm not much of an X11 guy, so thanks very much in advance! > (which also means i'm not sure what extra information i should be > providing about my system to help folks try to answer this.) > > paul > =--------------------- > paul fox, pgf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (arlington, ma, where it's 62.2 degrees) =--------------------- paul fox, pgf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (arlington, ma, where it's 52.5 degrees) _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
