Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 14:37:09 -0800 From: Pramod Venugopal <pramod@dvnull.org> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Cc: Andy Harrison <aharrison@gmail.com> Subject: Re: kde and gnome/gtk font appearance... Message-ID: <1166913429.18565.1.camel@phobos> In-Reply-To: <a22ff2940612231406g17d7f11cpfdb1394a52e9f431@mail.gmail.com> References: <a22ff2940612231403m7a416565k4d20bc4d8c16b4b9@mail.gmail.com> <a22ff2940612231406g17d7f11cpfdb1394a52e9f431@mail.gmail.com>
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I am not sure if this might help, but it does improve the way fonts are rendered for me in KDE and Gnome. Basically it turns on hinting. Put this in a file called .fonts.conf in your home directory. --8<-- <?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd"> <fontconfig> <match target="font"> <edit name="autohint" mode="assign"> <bool>true</bool> </edit> </match> </fontconfig> --8<-- - Pramod On Sat, 2006-12-23 at 17:06 -0500, Andy Harrison wrote: > On 12/23/06, Andy Harrison <aharrison@gmail.com> wrote: > > I was wondering if anyone could explain this discrepancy in font appearance. > > > > Here is how fonts appear on my desktop apps in gnome/metacity. > > > > Oops, first screenshot should be... > > http://img134.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshotgnomebx8.jpg >
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