Increasing font rendering
Paul Smith
phhs80 at gmail.com
Wed Apr 16 22:01:47 UTC 2008
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 10:34 PM, lostson <lostson at lostsonsvault.org> 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.
> >
> Not if you have the gtk-qt-engine install you dont..
Thanks to all who answered! The problem was apparently related to
'sub-pixel hinting'; with this option disabled, everything looks fine,
even without freetype-freeworld installed. That is strange that my
monitor, being a LCD one, renders the fonts better with 'sub-pixel
hinting' set off.
Paul
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