Font distortion in Slacko
Font distortion in Slacko
My wife has become a fervent Puppy booster after using Slacko for several weeks on her old HP laptop. The only problem is that parts of some letters are not displaying in Firefox and Abiword. And the letters affected change from bootup to bootup! For example, today the letter "a" is missing about 2/3 of its parts! Not so bad when it's "z", but "a"! Since it's not happening to me on the other 3 computers I use Slacko on, I figure it has something to do with the display characteristics on hers. Resolution, maybe? Does anyone have an idea what might be causing that to happen?
This could be the graphics driver being used.
Run
menu->Setup->Video Upgrade Wizard
See if it suggests using a different driver.
Try this:
Look for program Chtheme GTK/QT theme chooser.
Usually in menu->desktop->
Towards bottom of program window will be selection option for fonts.
Click on font button
In font selection window
Select a common font different from the present one.
Click OK
Click Apply
Click OK
Basically you are changing the global fonts used in program windows.
Hopefully one of them will give you a better look.
Firefox and Abiword have font settings you can change in their configuration settings.
Example:
Firefox
Edit->Preferences->Content->fonts & colors
Run
menu->Setup->Video Upgrade Wizard
See if it suggests using a different driver.
Try this:
Look for program Chtheme GTK/QT theme chooser.
Usually in menu->desktop->
Towards bottom of program window will be selection option for fonts.
Click on font button
In font selection window
Select a common font different from the present one.
Click OK
Click Apply
Click OK
Basically you are changing the global fonts used in program windows.
Hopefully one of them will give you a better look.
Firefox and Abiword have font settings you can change in their configuration settings.
Example:
Firefox
Edit->Preferences->Content->fonts & colors
The things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem.
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected
YaPI(any iso installer)
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected
YaPI(any iso installer)
Sounds good
Thanks. I'll try your suggestions and report back.
I was able to fix the font problem by using the VESA display. But it seemed to change Slacko so that it would not suspend (hibernate) anymore, which it had been able to do with my wife's old HP Pavillion. She said she'd rather live with the fonts than lose hibernation, which she really wants. So I "reinstalled", e.g., started from scratch and made a new savefile, and she is so happy after using WinXP for three days that she's forgotten the fonts!