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Old 01-20-2011, 06:14 PM   #1
InvRa
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gnome bad font look


hello guys i jsut installed gnome on arch and the fonts are very ugly. even chromium has very bad looking fonts. what am i supposed to install
 
Old 01-20-2011, 06:25 PM   #2
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ttf-microsoft-core-fonts (or without fonts. am not sure)

or right click on the desktop and sleect change background and there is a tab called fonts(i think so) so perhaps you have to enable subpixel smoothing/
 
Old 01-20-2011, 06:37 PM   #3
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i did enable subpixel but stil no change
EDIT: got it sorted by installing gnome-extras

Last edited by InvRa; 01-20-2011 at 08:26 PM.
 
  


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