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Old 02-27-2010, 02:32 AM   #1
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Solutions to 'ugly fonts' in fluxbox


I have a couple of questions for the fluxbox gurus. Firstly, is there a global setting for antialiasing / hinting / RGB subpixel rendering in fluxbox? What about for the GTK applications?

I'm also wondering if anyone has tried installing Ubuntu's or MS Cleartype LCD filter font packages in slackware. I used one of these when I was running arch, but I'm not sure how easy it would be to adapt for slackware. http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/...tched_packages (AUR is similar to slackbuilds)
 
Old 02-27-2010, 02:39 AM   #2
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I can't speak for fluxbox, but yes a lot of us here are using sub-pixel hinting patches to get better fonts, it makes a huge improvement. Dugan was nice enough to condense all of the posts into a nice guide.

http://www.vcn.bc.ca/~dugan/slackware-fonts/
 
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Old 02-27-2010, 05:35 AM   #3
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For fluxbox, try their wiki
http://fluxbox-wiki.org/index.php?title=Xdefaults_setup
http://fluxbox-wiki.org/index.php?title=Style_overlay
http://fluxbox-wiki.org/index.php?title=Change_font
 
  


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