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To the people with font troubles: What does your XFS configuration look like? You can find the file here:

 

/etc/X11/fs/config

 

Important bit is the catalogue and order fonts are listed. Here's mine, for comparison:

<!--QuoteEBegin-->catalogue = /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled,<!--QuoteEBegin-->        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont/Type1,<!--QuoteEBegin-->        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont/ttf,<!--QuoteEBegin-->        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled,<!--QuoteEBegin-->        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled,<!--QuoteEBegin-->        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,<!--QuoteEBegin-->        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF,<!--QuoteEBegin-->        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo,<!--QuoteEBegin-->        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mdk:unscaled,<!--QuoteEBegin-->        /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1,<!--QuoteEBegin-->        /usr/share/fonts/ttf/vera,<!--QuoteEBegin-->        /usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives,<!--QuoteEBegin-->        /usr/share/fonts/ttf/western,<!--QuoteEBegin-->        /usr/share/fonts/ttf/latex,<!--QuoteEBegin-->        /usr/share/fonts/freefont<!--QuoteEBegin-->

My Dell DFP really DOES have 100dpi, hence those fonts first, unscaled. Then my imported ttf fonts, then unscaled 75dpi (hey, you never know), then the rest. Order is important; XFS will go through the catalogue and select the font set that first raises its hand and screams "HELVETICA!!! HERE!!!" or the like.

 

To check your X server's DPI setting: xdpyinfo . If what's coming out is closer to 100 than 75, make sure those fonts are loaded first.

 

And chose your fonts wisely. Changing the font definitions in both .gtkrc and .gtkrc-2.0 might be appropriate, too.

 

93,

-Sascha.rb

Thats interesting becuase my default list with Mdk 10 is slightly different

catalogue = /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled,
       /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont,
       /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont/Type1,
       /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont/ttf,
       /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled,
       /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled,
       /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,
       /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF,
       /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo,
       /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/pcf_drakfont:unscaled,
       /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mdk:unscaled,
       /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1,
       /usr/share/fonts/ttf/vera,
       /usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives,
       /usr/share/fonts/ttf/western

with fonts/misc as the first entry. I wonder if thats significant. I'll switch them around and see if it makes a difference.

In KDE you can choose not to alias fonts below a certain size in the Fonts panel.  I don't think Gnome has that option.  However have you tried using gconf-editor, maybe there's an option there?

Thanks for that. Ive had a look and the only keys in /desktop/gnome/font_rendering are the same as those available in the Gnome Fonts panel. There is no indication that there may be more keys available. I'll try a quick google and see if that turns anything up.

Font renedering on MDK 10 is quite poor. Was much better in 9.x.  It takes a bit of

tweaking,  but they can be made to look nice. B)

OK thats encouraging - any idea how to go about that?

I finally bit the bullet and cleared my Mdk 9.0 partitions and did a fresh install of Mdk10. The upgrade from Gnome 2.2 to 2.4 is generally very nice but I have noticed that the anti-aliased fonts seem to be poorly rendered.

I'm using a Dell flat screen driven by an Nvidia GForce2 (latest drivers) and even with sub-pixel aliasing there seems to be a lot of blurring and bold fonts especially seem to be smudged. Part of the problem seems to be that it attempts to anti-alias all fonts regardless of size - even fonts below 8px. The centres of e's are especially noticeable -like an old typewriter. I've played with different fonts in the Gnome configuration panel but can't seem to make it any better. Is this a feature I'm going to have to live with or can it be fixed?