I just installed Slackware 12. The fonts are very bad. I like AA fonts but the current fonts doesn't look right. I have a MSI NX7300GS graphic card. I have installed the nvidia driver but with no impact on the fonts.

I am using also Fedora Core 2 and these AA fonts are much prettier.

copy true type fonts (*.ttf) to:

/usr/X11R6/lib/fonts/TTF/
then in this directory:

mkfontscale
then:
mkfontdir

P.S. the directory might be a little different..

/usr/X11R6/share/fonts/TTF

Actually, in Slackware 12.0 the path is:

/usr/share/fonts/TTF

Unfortunately it doesn't help.

You may want to recompile the freetype package with bytecode interpreter and sub-pixel renderer enabled. The source and slackbuild script are available on any slackware mirror under the "slackware-12.0/source/l" directory. Slackware's freetype is compiled with them disabled as the code is patented by Apple and Microsoft, but you can edit the slackbuild script to compile it with them enabled and install that (the relevant lines are commented out). There is a howto on using slackbuild scripts at http://www.slackbuilds.org

Font's unfortunately not as straight forward in Linux as there are in windows, but with not much work you can get the fonts anyway you like them, check out this post I made a while back and see if you like the way the fonts are rendered, there are links to howtos for non-aa fonts in the post but if you have a LCD and want to know how to get good sub pixel rendering let us know and the people here will point you in the right direction

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=539868

I have a laptop, have Slack on it since 10, always upgraded to new distro to avoid installing all the software . With Slackware 12 I decided it's time for a fresh install, now the fonts are horrible, even the Slackware defaults are horrible. I installed freetype with bytecode interpreter enabled, no change. They just look awful with AA, without AA, with forced DPI, without forced DPI, on the LCD they suck. If anyone has a solution or hints to point me in the right direction I'd be forever gratefull. I've attached a screenshot but that might look ugly only on my LCD screen ) . The notebook is Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Pro 2040, has a Intel 915m chipset, X is configured properly, DRI enabled, the fonts are KDE defaults (Sans Serif, 10).
Please help .

And here is the screenshot:

Ugly!!!

I can live with your fonts. My small fonts aren't readable anymore. I cannot give you a screenshot yet because I'm working now somewhere else.

Does the refresh rate of the video card has impact on the quality of the fonts? At first I have had refresh rate of 51,52,53. I have an LCD. I did a new install because during the installation of slack you can install additional fonts. I selected an extra font and now I have only one refresh rate of 61. Very strange.

Well I'm a PHP programmer, fonts have everything to do with it, I use Slack 10-14 hours/day. I'm seriously considering reverting to Slack 11.

I have found 3 interesting links:

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/Font-HOWTO/#msfonts
http://brendan.sdf-eu.org/articles/a...sing_slack.php
http://en.opensuse.org/Optimal_Use_of_Fonts_on_SuSE

I will try them tonight.

Forgive me if I'm being naive here, but the reason the fonts in firefox look like ass is because it is a gtk app. The fonts you set in kcontrol only control qt-based apps, so all the font-installing and bytecode-compiling will be useless if you can't set the fonts in gtk applications. I found this very weird, including all those gtk programs, but no way to change their theme or fonts. In the end, I found two options. One is to install gtk-qt-engine, which gives you an option in kcontrol for setting the fonts and theme of gtk apps. The other is to install gnome, giving you full access to gnome-font-properties, and the gnome-settings-daemon. I like gnome anyway so I installed it using the script in the 'vanilla gnome on slackware 12' thread in this forum, but just installing gtk-engines is easier. Once you've done that, you may find .gtkrc files in your home dir that you can tweak as you like.

john

Actually, I have found that playing with settings in KDE does have a direct impact on Firefox:
comparison

As for other adjusting other aspects of Firefox, you can use:

xfce-mcs-manager (maybe add this to kde autostart)
and then
xfce-settings-show

I was asking for a howto as 1 user here said:

"but if you have a LCD and want to know how to get good sub pixel rendering let us know and the people here will point you in the right direction"

I know how to change my fonts for the gtk applications, I know how to add fonts, I had a perfect interface with Slackware distros 10 - 11, the hell started with Slackware 12. So I'm guessing there are some tricks I'm not aware of for things to look nice on LCDs.