I just "upgraded" to Fedora Core 6 and without anti-aliasing turned on, fonts in KDE look like crap. I guess I'm missing a bunch. (I turn anti-aliasing off because I have a flat screen and like them sharp.)

I've got the DejaVu TT fonts, and the Nimbus Type 1 fonts....

Which font package am I missing, that would not get installed by the default FC6 install, that KDE needs?

Thanks if anyone can think of a quick fix for this.

I can micro-manage the anti-aliasing options in Gnome -
"full hints" seems to give me close to readable, non-fuzzy fonts. With sub-pixel aliasing I get nasty multicolored side effects.

I reinstalled FC4. Much better. I installed the entire distro as well, instead of just the office/productivity cluster. Yay. Fonts still look subpar with antialiasing turned off (but not as bad as FC6) but with antialiasing turned on, with rgba and full hinting, they don't look all that blurry. Much better than FC6.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=257705

We do have a search function. I found this on Google....

Thanks for the link. I did spend about an hour searching for information, but the discussions are so dominated by "L3NX F3NTS SUXX0R, m$ F3NTS ROOLS", followed by "UR L3ME WINDOWS SUXX0R".....

Plus, I have not installed a Linux desktop in 5 years. Too optimistically, I *ASSUMED* that the font situation would have worked itself out during that time, but NOOOO. Plus I will admit to being a moderate lamer for installing Fedora.

Now that I read those hints I do have a dim dark memory of compiling Freetype from scratch, and ditching xfd for a static configuration with a huge long FONTPATH some years ago. I'll have to dig down into the old OS (Redhat 8) to see what is actually there. It was not really Redhat 8 by 2007 - I think I had rebuilt nearly everything, Xfree86, gnome, KDE, from source over the years.

I'll post a follow up - at least fonts are readable under FC4, I don't feel like doing any massive tweaking just yet, I'm having fun enough dealing with upgrading from StarOffice 5.2 to OpenOffice 2.

Well from SuSE 10.0 onwards freetype is compiled and up and running. I wouldn't know about FC6, but FC7 is released, might be worth a try to get that...

I tried the 96*96 dpi resolution, it really makes a huge difference on my system. There is an other link (some SUSE-wiki), don't have it right now and couldn't find it on the novell pages. Hope I can post that on friday...

Found it:

http://en.opensuse.org/Optimal_Use_of_Fonts_on_SuSE

A comparison of the two links helped in my case.