HELP - FC6 looks really bad (sometimes)

[Tony Nelson]

At 3:38 PM -0800 12/12/06, John Wendel wrote:
>I installed FC6 with KDE on my test box with a 17 inch 1024 x 768 crt,
>Nvidia 5200 using the NV driver - looks beautiful!
>
>I installed FC6 with Gnome on my laptop with a 15 inch 1280 x 800 LCD,
>Intel 915 video - also looks very nice (much nicer than the XP I
>dumped from the box)!
>
>I installed FC6 with KDE on my daily use desktop (the one I really
>care about) with a Princeton 19 inch 1280 x 1024 LCD, Nvidia 6200, and
>it looks horrible! I tried the NV and Nvidia drivers, no difference.
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There have been other posts about KDE and bad-looking fonts.  Here's one:

At 9:02 AM +0800 10/27/06, Ed Greshko wrote:
>Tim wrote:
>> Paul Smith:
>>>> I have just upgraded from FC5 to FC6, but the fonts do not look so
>>>> nice as before. I have the anti-aliasing on and I am using KDE.
>>
>>
>> Ed Greshko:
>>> Try the following....
>>>
>>> 1.  Disable anti-aliasing.
>>> 2.  Logout and use Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to restart X server.
>>> 3.  Login and enable anti-aliasing.
>>> 4.  Logout and use Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to restart X server.
>>> 5.  Login and see if your fonts are improved.
>>
>> Good grief!  If that sort of thing is necessary, and required, it makes
>> you wonder if someone in Fedora has being taking hints from Microsoft.
>
>FWIW, I did bugzilla it and it has been fixed but just didn't make it into
>the release.  Also, I looked back at my report and it really was only
>necessary to:
>
>1. Login as KDE user.
>2. Go to the KDE "Control Center" --> "Fonts" menu
>3. Deselect Anti-Aliasing then hit "apply"
>4. Select Anti-Aliasing then hit "apply"
>5. Logout/Login
>
>Just a bit easier.....
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