Re: [SLUG] Ugly fonts in Hardy
Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Hi all, I'm on Hardy Heron and like Jeremy, I have been suffering from ugly fonts: http://jeremy.visser.name/2008/03/ugly-fonts-in-hardy In the comments to Jeremy's blog post Lindsay said: System - Preferences - Appearance, click on the Fonts tab. You’ll probably see “Rendering” set to “Best shapes”, and you’ll want to set it to “Subpixel smoothing (LCDs)”. If you click on the “Details” button at the bottom, you’ll get another screen with a bunch more options. Try setting “Hinting” to “None”, and “Smoothing” to “Subpixel (LCDs). Problem is, I'm not running Gnome (i prefer E17). I've run gconf-editor and I can find the Hinting setting, but not any of the others. The easiest way, if you're not averse to it, is to install the gnome-contorol-center package, and run gnome-appearance-properties. That'll give you the appearance applet that Lindsay described. Failing that, the gconf keys you want are: /desktop/gnome/font_rendering/hinting - I assume this is the hinting one you've already found. /desktop/gnome/font_rendering/antialiasing - The smoothing section Lindsay described. My version of hardy provides more than enough documentation in gconf-editor about possible values. But if you're not seeing them, you need rgba for subpixel smoothing. Hope that helps. -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Ugly fonts in Hardy
On 3/10/08, Peter Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The easiest way, if you're not averse to it, is to install the gnome-contorol-center package, and run gnome-appearance-properties. That'll give you the appearance applet that Lindsay described. Failing that, the gconf keys you want are: /desktop/gnome/font_rendering/hinting - I assume this is the hinting one you've already found. /desktop/gnome/font_rendering/antialiasing - The smoothing section Lindsay described. My version of hardy provides more than enough documentation in gconf-editor about possible values. But if you're not seeing them, you need rgba for subpixel smoothing. Try using gconftool-2 its in the package gconf and then just run something like $ gconftool-2 --set /desktop/gnome/font_rendering/antialiasing --type string rgba $ gconftool-2 --set /desktop/gnome/font_rendering/hinting --type string none Hope that helps you. -- Harrison Conlin gpg fingerprint = 5F32 C312 82C7 933D DD7B DBCC 60D8 40EA 3A16 1F13 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Ugly fonts in Hardy
Hi all, I'm on Hardy Heron and like Jeremy, I have been suffering from ugly fonts: http://jeremy.visser.name/2008/03/ugly-fonts-in-hardy In the comments to Jeremy's blog post Lindsay said: System - Preferences - Appearance, click on the Fonts tab. You’ll probably see “Rendering” set to “Best shapes”, and you’ll want to set it to “Subpixel smoothing (LCDs)”. If you click on the “Details” button at the bottom, you’ll get another screen with a bunch more options. Try setting “Hinting” to “None”, and “Smoothing” to “Subpixel (LCDs). Problem is, I'm not running Gnome (i prefer E17). I've run gconf-editor and I can find the Hinting setting, but not any of the others. Anybody got any clues how to fix this? Cheers, Erik -- - Erik de Castro Lopo - I'm too fucking busy, or vice versa -- Dorothy Parker -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
