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02-06-2018, 08:11 PM

#16

camerabambai

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Registered: Mar 2010

Distribution: Slackware

Posts: 408

Rep:

editing .gtkrc-3.0 and adding

Code:

gtk-font-name="DejaVu Sans 10"

Make the fonts more good now.

But I have also recompiled freetype-2.9 adding this patch

Code:

--- include/freetype/config/ftoption.h	2018-02-03 05:38:22.672917645 +0100
+++ include/freetype/config/ftoption.h	2018-02-03 05:38:38.637919147 +0100
@@ -905,7 +905,7 @@
   /*                                                                       */
   /* This problematic commit is now reverted (more or less).               */
   /*                                                                       */
-/* #define AF_CONFIG_OPTION_TT_SIZE_METRICS */
+#define AF_CONFIG_OPTION_TT_SIZE_METRICS
 
   /* */

and enabling "subpixels" on SlackBuild

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