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On Mon, 16 Aug 2010, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> I am seeing no error messages about XftConfig.  The dependencies I 
> install onto BL3.5 (and 3.4, I love to play with multiple versions) are 
> Steven's misc-libs and x-libs along with Sindi's "Opera".  As for fonts 
> I am not changing the defaults as they all show up readable just fine.

Do you have a /usr/X11R6/lib/fonts/XftConfig?  I don't in BL2 unless I add 
my own.  Maybe BL3.5 comes with the file properly set up to use existing 
fonts.

If you set it to lucida, does a web page look different from the default 
for web page normal text?  (Tools, Preferences, Advanced, Fonts).  Look at 
some page on your computer (plain text) that has not set its own font.

> All this talk about Ad-Blocking.  Just wanted to comment that many 
> Webmasters have stated that their revenue streams depend on the ads they 
> show.  Ad-Blocks reduce this revenue and threaten the existance of the 
> websites in question.  I know you might think the ads waste bandwidth 
> and are annoying but is it better to have no ads, no sites or ads on 
> healthy sites?

I think Opera downloads everything (even all the images when you set it 
not to show any images - I can see 'elements 24/24' etc. at page top) but 
just does not display anything that you are blocking.  The 'revenue 
streams depend on the ads' does not mean that the sites lose money by you 
blocking the ads, unless you would have actually clicked on the ad links 
after seeing them, which probably brings in the revenuw.

I think there is some other program that will shrink the white spaces left 
behind by blocked images.

Sindi