ralph1976 Posted February 21, 2004 Report Share Posted February 21, 2004 after changing to a 19" tft-display i notice how sluggish the linux fonts are compared to fonts in windows. is there a way to change the fonts in linux globally to the fonts that windows uses? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nggalai Posted February 21, 2004 Report Share Posted February 21, 2004 Good morning! What exactly do you mean by "sluggish?" And "change globally?" That all applications use Windows TTF fonts? What desktop environment are you running? KDE and GNOME should have options in their respective preferences panel to change the main font, but I am not too sure there's an easy way to force each and every X application to use that one. Please correct me if I'm wrong, everybody. 93, -Sascha.rb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ralph1976 Posted February 21, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 21, 2004 with "sluggish" i mean that the fonts in kde are nowhere near as sharp and crisp like those of windows. and yes, with globally change i mean that all (or as many as possible) use those windows fonts... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted February 21, 2004 Report Share Posted February 21, 2004 (edited) There's drakfont in mcc to get windows font's, and in kcontrol there's a font-installer as well. All apps? Not likely, but 80-90% will use the font's defined in the de's preferences. Edited February 21, 2004 by bvc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gregor Posted February 21, 2004 Report Share Posted February 21, 2004 is there a way to change the fonts in linux globally to the fonts that windows uses? The problem is also this: http://www.freetype.org/patents.html I have a page about how to fix it but it is not in English. ;-) http://mandrakeprinas.org/clanki/pisave.php General idea is this: 1. Install libfreetype6 from PLF (Bytecode Interpreter is enabled). 2. Install msfonts. 3. Disable antialiasing for small fonts. 4. Disable most of other fonts (other fonts look ugly without antialiasing). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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