Mig21 wrote:
>
> i finally figured out what's going on. the problem is that the mozilla
> and firefox that come with slackware refuse to render non-latin fonts.
> if you go to a website like http://anekdot.ru/ all you'll see is squares
> with 4 digits in them
>
> the same happens with the gtk2 binary packages from mozilla.org
>
> but gtk1 mozilla/seamonkey packages from mozilla.org work much better.
> going to http://wikipedia.org/ only 3 languages refuse to render (as
> opposed to 15 with gtk2)
>

Try to add:

<dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi</dir>
<dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/</dir> #if those installed

in your "/etc/fonts/fonts.conf" that way the free type library will
take all the fonts into account (even the non antialiased ones).
Then restart X

You can also put:

export GDK_USE_XFT=0

in your "~/.profile" to get a font rendering more inline with
those precompiled ones from mozilla.org, if you like that.