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.
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Pete
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