[mythtv-users] Debugging font problems

[Ralph van Etten]

Michael T. Dean wrote:

>> I have some problems with fonts. They all look the same, even when I 
>> change the theme and use different font names.
> 
> Why are you trying to change them?  

two reasons:

1. to experiment / create my own theme

2. currently they are not easily readable :

The OSD fonts look great and are easily readable.

The UI fonts are not. In the UI the fonts are too fat (or too bright?), 
like the e does not have an opening.
For example when I use the MythCenter theme and select 'Utilities / 
Setup' -> 'Edit Keys' I see two columns of text. The selected column has 
bright white text which are not so easy on the eyes, the 
unselected/grayed column is easy readable. And since the entire UI uses 
these bright too fat fonts I thought maybe I can change them.
They are not overlapping, incorrectly scaled or anything, they just are 
too bright or too bold.

I tried changing the settings on my video card (brightness, contrast, 
hue, sharpening etc) but it does not improve.

I'm using an nVidia GeForce 6200 connected to my TV using SVIDEO. The 
resolution i'm using is 720x576 @ 100dpi but lower/higher resolutions do 
not improve the readability of the fonts.
The TV is a widescreen 100Hz flatscreen TV.
On a normal monitor, the fonts are readable though.
Distribution is Debian sid running only mythtv, no kde/gnome/etc.

I noticed various themes use different fonts but they all look the same 
in the UI so I thought maybe mythtv can not find the fonts and was 
hoping there is an error message when mythtv can not find the font which 
was specified in the theme.


Thanks,

Ralph.