Re: newbie needs help

["john doe" <ophidian_snake@hotmail.com>]

looks like you are from eldorado ... well im from "the 'burg"

Casey

>From: Leon Raymer <leon@shawneelink.com>
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>Alright! It's beginning to feel like I've found a home away from home.
>
>(I did notice that y'all tend to hail from the west side of the state. I'm 
>camped on the far east side.....so close to the borders that I can claim 
>both Hoosiers and Kentuckians as cousins.....just a hillbilly come to 
>town.)
>
>I appreciate all your responses (no matter how strange) and I'll try 
>Steve's suggestion below. Will let you know how it works out.....but give 
>me a few days. My most favorite things seem to get the least amount of 
>time.
>
>thanks all,
>Leon
>
>On Wed, 9 Jul 2003 23:30:58 -0500, Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org> 
>wrote:
>
>>On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 10:40:18PM -0500, Leon Raymer wrote:
>>>I'm a hobby website builder and I have everything ready to move 
>>>production to the linux side....but for the video distortion and ugly 
>>>fonts. Everything displays clean and smooth as long as I'm pulling from 
>>>my hard drive but the minute I try to view one of my local web pages, or 
>>>an external web page, thru my browser (Mozilla, Opera, etc.), it gets 
>>>real ugly. All the fonts are drastically downsized and the whole page 
>>>appears smaller. Any display under linux, in fact, does not fill the 
>>>available screen width and height as displayed under windows.
>>
>>Kinda just sounds like you need to work on your fonts a bit.  Long
>>answer:
>>
>>http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/FDU/
>>
>>Short answer:  Copy the fonts from your Windows partition (everything
>>in the windows/fonts/ or winnt/fonts/ directory) to a directory that
>>is listed in /etc/X11/fs/config (I think
>>/usr/share/fonts/default/TrueType is there by default) and restart xfs
>>("service xfs restart").  Your fonts should magically work a lot more
>>like they do in Windows.
>>
>>If that doesn't do it, hit the URL above.  If that document doesn't
>>give you solutions to all your problems, let us know.
>>
>>>So here I am asking strangers for help......
>>
>>We're not all that strange once you get to know us...  ;-)
>>
>>Steve
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>Leon
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