varnold Posted September 29, 2014 Report Share Posted September 29, 2014 Hi guys, old-time Gentoo user from version 1.2 circa 2002.The original Gentoo was so smooth and polished up until Daniel left, even the forums back then had really cool, well'mannered guys hanging out helping each other. It was a wonderful place to be.There were some grievances I had with the older Gentoo though ! One was the fact that I had to configure X, that was always a pain, and the other was messing around with fonts. I remember getting beautiful fonts by default when Daniel was still heading Gentoo, but not after he left.I'm at the stage where I have neither the time nor the inclination to fanny around with such things. I used to spend endless amounts of time getting WindowMaker configured the way I wanted, I was such a pain.These days, I find Gnome-Shell a wonderful successor as my Desktop Environment; font configuration is probably being handled by it.Could someone clarify if things have improved ? Would I still have to setup X (or is it Wayland now), handle font configuration etc ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
causes Posted September 29, 2014 Report Share Posted September 29, 2014 Only things i have configured for X are fonts, keyboard layout and touchpad. Everything else is autodetected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
666threesixes666 Posted September 29, 2014 Report Share Posted September 29, 2014 were starting to get a STRONG wiki team assembled. im still working on polluting the wiki with logic. all you have to do is specify the video card to your make.conf and im still working on that document... its still a bit rough at the moment regarding determining which card you need to configure. (you can break the rules and look at gentoo's wiki with your specific card) if it doesn't say emerge xorg-server xorg-x11 it will..... the thing about funtoo's wiki is that it contains excellent editing instructions so even a lvl 2 noob can make excellent content additions and revisions.... funtoo.org > go > how to wiki & welcome http://www.funtoo.org/Video Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spectromas Posted September 29, 2014 Report Share Posted September 29, 2014 I had to mess around with fonts for a while. It is possible just to set the infinality flag and use that, which is pretty effortless, but I wasn't completely satisfied with them so I just set everything up manually myself in ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf. That said, I don't use a big DE so maybe less would be needed for you if you plan to use Gnome. Font configuration is definitely an area that could use some more documentation in our wiki though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
varnold Posted October 1, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2014 Just to let everyone know: Dalton Maag's Aller fonts are really good. Worth looking into if you want a good Humanist font. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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