[plug] Why are my widgets furry?

[Leon Brooks]

Greg Gamble wrote:
>   We are currently running Linux 2.0.36 from a Debian distro on
> a Toshiba Portege 3010CT (a portable PC) ... but we are very unhappy
> with the look of for example the scroll bars in xterms. They look
> `fuzzy', quite unlike the look on our old portable PC.
>   Has anyone experienced this sort of problem? ... have any idea on
> what I'm talking about? ... or better still know how to fix it?
>   I tried installing the neXTaw widgets (from Debian's nextawg and
> aw-wrappers package) ... but though they look better, they are still
> fuzzy. Yes ... we are operating at 16bpp, so we should have enough
> colours.

Try either 8 or 24bpp; the 16bpp display tends to get dithered and so
fuzzy.

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