Hi,

Im using a HP Compaq dc 7100 desktop. Actually its built for SuSe 9.3 pro. Im currently using (offcourse) arch on this machine. Then, just for the fun of it, I installed SuSe 10.0 on it just to see if it looked better especially the font thing. I haven't had any big troubles with my fonts, but im in no doubt they could be better.

The result was: No 'better looking' fonts using SuSe 10, than with my arch.

The default fonts I use is Serif and Monospace for the fixed width.

What type of fonts do you guys use? Any recommendations would be fun to try out.

Just trying to tweak my arch

Sincerely, Jørgen

If you install the ms truetype font patch using YOU, then you have access to the same fonts as those on Windows. Also Suse has a lot of Free truetype fonts available if you search in the YAST software module.

Hi, and thanks for your reply.

I installed the ms truetype pack using pacman. Will that do any good? I can see the fonts and use them in my openoffice.

What do you mean with 'YOU'?

Sincerely, Jørgen

YOU is the YAST Online Updater which is used to download and install patches and updates for Suse Linux. To access it start YAST -> Online Update, then select a mirror to download the updates from. A list of available packages will be listed and you can then install the MS fonts from a patch called "Download Microsoft Core Truetype Fonts". If you use an Nvidia drive, you can also install them from YOU. I am not sure if the official Suse package for MS TTFs clashes with that from Packman but I don't think its necessary to have both.

Heh, reddazz he's asking about Arch, just an oddly worded question

I use mostly truetype fonts on Arch except in terminals. I never had any problems with my fonts. I heard people whinging about them on the forums but I don't think mine look crappy. Maybe I just lucked out or I've never been spoiled by how other distros look but yeah...

Oh yeah. English language semantics can be confusing for some of us. Anyway if you use Arch, you can copy MS TT fonts and install them on your Linux system. All you would need to do is copy them to somewhere like /usr/share/fonts/msttf, change to that directory and then do as root "mkfontdir && mkfontscale".

It also wouldn't hurt to add the font path to your files section in the xorg.conf file. FWIW: Arch provides Microsoft TrueType fonts as well with "pacman -S ttf-ms-fonts". Note that cabextract will also be installed as a dependency (for extracting the fonts). Since fonts generally are very important to a lot of people, there are at least two main entries in the ArchWiki for setting up fonts the Arch Linux way, namely here and here. There may also be additional comments on fonts in ArchWiki entries concerning the configuration of specific desktops and window managers. Hope that helps.

PS
I have also found the thread Making non-antialiased fonts look nice extremely usefull for setting up my fonts.

Hi,

Thanks alot for all your replies. I can also use the one from reddazz because I have SuSe installed on one of my machines at work.