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Just installed Mdk 9.1.

 

I have to admit it takes some time to get used to the anti-aliased fonts. It's okay (or even better) for English fonts, but the Asian fonts became too small and 'slim' when anti-aliased; even though anti-aliased Asian fonts are prettier, it's no point when it became too difficult to read them, say when browsing websites.

 

What do you think?

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Guest joehill

I learned from this board:

 

Sometimes it is better to turn it off...

part of /etc/X11/XftConfig

match any size > 7 any size < 15 edit antialias = false;

match any pixelsize < 17 any pixelsize > 7 edit antialias = false;

match any weight == bold edit antialias = true;

match any slant == italic edit antialias = true;

 

I personally hate ALL anti-aliased fonts on Linux, they're just a hackjob.

 

This worked on 9.0, I would assume the same configuration is used.

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Anti-alias fonts have gotten better in Linux. Redhat-8.0 had really good out-of-the-box AA fonts. I am using texstar kde-3.1 RPMS with AA fonts on mandrake-9.0 and they look nice. You should choose the fonts that look best and also ensure that the font size does not become too small (less than 8 ). I have found Sans 11 and Nimbus Sans 11 to be quite good.

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should be the same quality for both.

 

however, you can tweak the fonts your gtk1.x apps use by editing your .gtkrc file or .gtkrc1.2-gnome2 maybe, in your home dir.

 

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Ok, I fixed the GTK 1.2+ font problem.

 

I suspect the ext3 filesystem has not been completely debugged yet....

The font settings and data were a mess.... I suspect it's because of data corruption....

 

Switching to XFS as filesystem, it seems to be more stable for me and the GTK 1.2+ fonts are looking normal (same as Mdk 9) again now. Well it could be just my system not working good with ext3... but 9.0 is ok, and it's been known 2.4.20 kernel has data corruption with ext3....

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