Yeah I got cleartype style patches available, Ill post them a little later when I sort out a few things, I'm guessing Dugan will have an update sooner or later.

Ok I went ahead and got them updated. Here is the link
http://www.mostlyslack.com/slackstuff/cleartype

I put a bash script in each build called source.sh that will download the source for you, I was going to add this directly into the build but I got lazy and just did it this way . After you've built and installed the 3 packages (freetype, cairo, libXft) you will need to edit your fontconfig to enable sub-pixel rendering, you can add these features globally by adding the correct symlinks from your /etc/fonts/conf.avail to your /etc/fonts/conf.d directory. Or you can just use my fonts.conf file in the above link and save it in your home directory as .fonts.conf. Once that is done just reboot and you should have it working.

Before
http://www.mostlyslack.com/slackstuf...-cleartype.png

After
http://www.mostlyslack.com/slackstuf.../cleartype.png

Keep in mind that these patches are slightly different that the ones that dugan provides. I prefer these because they give a slight bold appereance to the fonts. If you want your fonts more like windows XP/7 then you probably want to look at dugans ubuntu patches.

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Thanks Daedra, using them now and looks good.

Edited: Just to make sure peeps see that they need to reboot per Daedra's post.

Hi Daedra,

Really appreciate your reply, and I guess that I might need your help once again.

I followed your instructions, and recompiled freetype, cairo, libXft,and the fonts looks much better. The only (quite serious problem) is that all letters in my xfce are squares, I cannot do nothing with my slackware. While web pages are fine, they appear quite normal.

Thanks

Sorry, I just reboot the system, and everything is good, so please ignore this post.

Thanks

Nice. They are easy to use, didn't take long to install and they're working great. Thanks Daedra, one reason I like Slackware is that community makes it easy to use all the great things that one could miss.

Edit: Made a quick test with XFCE and for me they are working fine, thought I don't use Slackware's default font but Droid Sans.

Hi, Daedra,

A quick question, font in Libreoffice isn't as good as that of firefox, and how to fix that?

thanks

Has the procedure changed in any way?

do I have to remove the original packages first ( and /etc/fonts directory), and then build in order, or can I just build and upgrade?

just build and upgrade, then drop in the fonts.conf file in your home directory but rename it .fonts.conf. restart x and your done.

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How to make this .font.conf apply to all users? btw, root is the only user I have now..

thanks

Open up your fav text editor and copy this into it.

! Xft.antialias: 1
Xft.dpi: 96
Xft.hinting: 1
Xft.hintstyle: hintfull
Xft.lcdfilter: lcddefault
Xft.rgba: rgb

then save it in your home directory as .Xdefaults. Restart X and libreoffice should look better.

Thanks for the help, Daedra.

I did what said, but it didn't work. This is somehow weird, fonts in some programs (firefox,Thunar,thunderbird,and etc) work great, but in other programs, like Opera, seamonkey, libreoffice, the font rendering is not good at all.

I am using xfce now, and I guess that i have to do more readings.

Thanks

What version of Slackware are you using? Your signature says 12.1.

sorry, just had it updated, and I am using the latest one 13.37.

I am reading some article about 'system-wide font instaallation,' and hope to find some fix.

thanks,

one more question, are you using 64bit or 32bit?

32 bit, thanks