Increasing font rendering

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 15:41 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:29:48 +0100
> "Paul Smith" <phhs80 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Some progress, but still far from perfect. Please, see the attached screen-shot.
> 
> Another question to ask: Is there a gnome-settings-daemon process
> running in the background? All GTK apps want to talk to it to get
> the font settings established by gnome font setting app (either
> gnome-appearance-properties in recent versions of gnome or
> gnome-font-properties in older versions).
> 
> I have no idea if KDE starts up the gnome-settings-daemon for the
> benefit of KDE users running GTK apps, so if you are running KDE,
> that may be the problem.

To set fonts, themes etc. for some apps, including Firefox specifically,
you have to use the Gnome procedure (e.g. gnome-control-center) even
when running KDE.

poc