fonts/text look unsmooth in lenny

tredegar · 04-20-2009, 09:43 AM

You can do all this through the GUI.
Start kcontrol from a terminal.
Go to Appearance & Themes -> Fonts
Enable and configure Anti-aliasing.
Click Apply
Done

roseway · 04-20-2009, 10:38 AM

One thing which hasn't been mentioned is the screen DPI value, which can make a big difference to the appearance of fonts. There are various ways to control this, depending on your graphics card / driver combination. I use nVidia cards with the nVidia driver, and I always add this to the [Device] or [Screen] section of xorg.conf:

Code:

    Option         "UseEdidDpi" "False"
    Option         "DPI" "96x96"

bluefly · 04-20-2009, 01:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by the trooper

Good stuff!.
Just out of interest, where is the file you have edited?
In my home directory i only have .fontconfig.

if you don't have one you can create one, it's optional.
you can read more about it here: http://fontconfig.org/fontconfig-user.html

Quote:

Originally Posted by tredegar

You can do all this through the GUI.
Start kcontrol from a terminal.
Go to Appearance & Themes -> Fonts
Enable and configure Anti-aliasing.
Click Apply
Done

i'm using gnome so that won't work, but there's something similiar in System->Preferences->Appearance which failed to do any change.

the trooper · 04-20-2009, 03:43 PM

Thanks for the link bluefly.

brianL · 04-22-2009, 07:00 AM

For what might be a simple pointy-clicky solution, try this (like Tredegar's, but for Gnome):
System => Preferences => Appearance => Fonts => Details. Check the buttons for Subpixel Smoothing and Slight Hinting.
Edit.
Ooops, just read your previous post again, properly this time, where you said you've tried something like this.