Whats with the shitty fonts linux ?

chessonly · 05-04-2009, 02:19 PM

Sometimes the fonts are so tiny you can barely read em, sometimes they are so big that toolbars are as thick as 2 . Letters overlapping each other..

NO matter which distro, the story is the same - shitty shitty fonts.

Whats up with it?

rweaver · 05-04-2009, 02:26 PM

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Originally Posted by chessonly

Sometimes the fonts are so tiny you can barely read em, sometimes they are so big that toolbars are as thick as 2 . Letters overlapping each other..

NO matter which distro, the story is the same - shitty shitty fonts.

Whats up with it?

Not a problem I've run into, care to post some screen shots so I can see what you mean and in what applications specifically?

SlowCoder · 05-04-2009, 02:28 PM

Censors! Censors! Psst ... the only people allowed to curse are the mods, and BrianL ('cause he's a funny guy!). But seriously ...

I've wondered the same thing. It appears to be related to the video driver/resolution, and fonts don't always seem to resize to the proper point size. Newer OS versions don't seem to have quite that much problem, though I do still see it periodically.

win_to_lin_migrant · 05-04-2009, 02:37 PM

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Originally Posted by chessonly

Sometimes the fonts are so tiny you can barely read em, sometimes they are so big that toolbars are as thick as 2 . Letters overlapping each other..

NO matter which distro, the story is the same. Whats up with that?

If you experienced this issue with more than one distro it's most likely caused by hardware and not software.

SlowCoder · 05-04-2009, 02:42 PM

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Originally Posted by win_to_lin_migrant

If you experienced this issue with more than one distro it's most likely caused by hardware and not software.

I agree. Case in point, I have an old 15.4 Dell Inspiron with a 1600x1200 display. Primarily the issue is in Firefox and I am always hitting Ctrl+ to read anything. Otherwise I tweaked the default system fonts to make things more visible.

anomie · 05-04-2009, 02:42 PM

@chessonly: Please don't curse on the forums. It gives a bad impression.

I've found default fonts on my favorite Linux distros (RHEL/CentOS) to be completely unacceptable, so I install liberation-fonts and point firefox to them. They look great.

AlucardZero · 05-04-2009, 03:39 PM

So change them, and lose the confrontational attitude if you actually want help.

brianL · 05-05-2009, 05:00 AM

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Originally Posted by SlowCoder

Censors! Censors! Psst ... the only people allowed to curse are the mods, and BrianL ('cause he's a funny guy!).

Oh ****! I didn't realise I was allowed to ****ing curse and ****ing swear!!

I've never had any ****ing problem with *****y fonts on any distro.

widget · 05-07-2009, 12:05 AM

Yes, a class way to "make friends and influence people". Been known to do it myself. Doesn't work for (deleted).

GazL · 05-07-2009, 04:04 AM

Oh good grief! You can't seriously suggest use of the adjective 'shitty' counts as cursing now?

Anyways, I've seen this issue too, usually in the webbrowser. Probably due to the page author specifying a fontname/family that doesn't map correctly onto a linux font and fontconfig tries its best to guess one. I've never seen the issue in toolbars or other interface widgets though.

win_to_lin_migrant · 05-07-2009, 08:35 AM

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Originally Posted by GazL

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I've never seen the issue in toolbars or other interface widgets though.

The OP has failed to describe his hardware therefore accurate diagnosis is not possible.

Since he has not posted again we can only guess about the motives for his OP. He may never have had any intention of seeking a solution and simply wanted to vent his displeasure about Linux.

BEGIN EDIT: After viewing the OP’s stats in his public profile and reading the post at the link below I see he is pursuing a problem with his VGA:

Getting weird error with ati driver

Too bad he couldn’t take the time to close this thread before opening another about the same problem.