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Charlie.
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 Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 7:01 am Post subject: KDE 4.1.2: No Font Anti-Aliasing |
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None of the font anti-aliasing or sub-pixel hinting settings in the KDE 4.1.2 settings manager seem to affect the appearance of my desktop in any way. I have tried restarting applications and even the whole machine.
Are they broken or is there some secret rain-dance necessary to make them work?
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tgurr
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| Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 2:36 pm Post subject: Re: KDE 4.1.2: No Font Anti-Aliasing |
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| Charlie. wrote: | | or is there some secret rain-dance necessary to make them work? |
Indeed there is!  Try the following as root:
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eselect fontconfig enable 10-sub-pixel-rgb.conf
eselect fontconfig disable 30-metric-aliases.conf
eselect fontconfig enable 70-no-bitmaps.conf
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In case I forgot something, my eselect fontconfig list looks like this:
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[1] 10-autohint.conf
[2] 10-no-sub-pixel.conf
[3] 10-sub-pixel-bgr.conf
[4] 10-sub-pixel-rgb.conf *
[5] 10-sub-pixel-vbgr.conf
[6] 10-sub-pixel-vrgb.conf
[7] 10-unhinted.conf
[8] 20-fix-globaladvance.conf *
[9] 20-unhint-small-vera.conf *
[10] 25-unhint-nonlatin.conf
[11] 30-metric-aliases.conf
[12] 30-urw-aliases.conf *
[13] 40-nonlatin.conf *
[14] 45-latin.conf *
[15] 49-sansserif.conf *
[16] 50-user.conf *
[17] 51-local.conf *
[18] 60-latin.conf *
[19] 65-fonts-persian.conf *
[20] 65-khmer.conf
[21] 65-nonlatin.conf *
[22] 69-unifont.conf *
[23] 70-no-bitmaps.conf *
[24] 70-yes-bitmaps.conf
[25] 80-delicious.conf *
[26] 90-synthetic.conf *
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This should get you some pretty aliased fonts. |
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Charlie.
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| Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 2:40 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks, tgurr - I'll try that when I get home in about an hour.
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Charlie.
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| Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 1:07 pm Post subject: |
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/me performs secret rain-dance.
Heavens Open.
After the rain clears, the world has a clean, neat appearance. The haze is washed away.
(Thanks tgurr, my fonts are beautiful, again.)
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agent_jdh
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| Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 3:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Code: | | eselect fontconfig enable 70-no-bitmaps.conf |
My monospace font in Firefox (i.e. the one that's used in the above code) gets 'squashed' & v ugly.
Any ideas how to fix that? Other than that problem, it's great, and solves the problem I have with hideous fonts getting used in Yahoo mail.
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d-fens
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| Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 10:49 am Post subject: |
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| like i experienced in this thread ? |
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xeonman9000
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| Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 2:18 pm Post subject: |
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| If you are currently using Sans Serif for most things, change it to Nimbus Sans L, that worked for me. |
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agent_jdh
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| Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 6:13 pm Post subject: |
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@dfens - no, not seeing anything like that.
I don't have any objection to the particular font being used, just that when I enable the no bitmaps option, the font gets squashed, and I cannot for the life of me work out how to make it bigger.
The only way I can get it to change is to disable the Firefox option for allowing websites to choose their own font - I've done that for the moment, so I'm still getting used to things looking a bit 'odd''.
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Charlie.
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| Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 10:59 am Post subject: |
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Since asking this question and using the posted answer to solve the issue, I have reverted to Xfce.
It might be me, but the fonts don't look quite right in Xfce anymore. Should I reverse this operation and go back to the default selection for fontconfig?
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