too blurry antialiased fonts

oski · 10-12-2003, 05:51 AM

I easily switched off antialiasing in KDE desktop, but it had no efect in non KDE applications. I didn't find where to perform the disabling and re-enabling (if necessary) of antialiasing valid for non KDE applications. I guess I'll need to edit some sort of .conf file, but I don't know where to start. Thanks in advance!

quatsch · 10-12-2003, 11:04 AM

there should be a file called .fonts.conf in your home directory. If there isn't, go to kde control center, enable anti-aliasing with it disabled for certain font sizes. Then disable it again.

When you open .fonts.conf, you should see what needs to be done. Basically,

<edit mode="assign" name="antialias" >
<bool>true</bool>

needs to be changed to

<edit mode="assign" name="antialias" >
<bool>false</bool>

It must be a bug in kde not to change the settings in this file as well. I actually don't know where kde saves its own aa-settings...

oski · 10-12-2003, 12:15 PM

Thanks for quick answer quatsch. Unfortunately I was unable to find .fonts.conf in my home, all I found was /etc/fonts/fonts.conf, I openned in a text editor and no lines, like the ones you showed me, exist. Must I add them? I guess that editing such a file is not danger free, nor newbie proof. Do you have more ideas? Does anyone? Yes, I know the blurry fonts is not a crucial problem, but is one that causes fatigue to eyes with the hours. Thanks one more time.

quatsch · 10-12-2003, 12:38 PM

did you try enabling anti-aliasing in kde control center? When you specify that some font sizes are to be excluded from aa-ing, it should create a .fonts.conf in your home directory. BTW, it's a hidden file as the leading . indicates.
I do NOT recomment editing /etc/fonts/fonts.conf

If nothing else, you can create a .fonts.conf in your home directory. After logging in again, the settings will take effect. Mine looks like this: It is set to anti-alias fonts smaller than 8pts and larger than 16pts, and leave the rest normal - you can change the numbers to your liking. For very small and very large things, anti-aliasing is good.

Code:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<fontconfig>
 <match target="font" >
  <test compare="more" name="size" qual="any" >
   <double>8</double>
  </test>
  <test compare="less" name="size" qual="any" >
   <double>16</double>
  </test>
  <edit mode="assign" name="antialias" >
   <bool>false</bool>
  </edit>
 </match>
</fontconfig>

oski · 10-12-2003, 01:22 PM

I got it! thanks so much!