zero0w Posted March 26, 2003 Report Share Posted March 26, 2003 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest joehill Posted March 26, 2003 Report Share Posted March 26, 2003 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ndeb Posted March 26, 2003 Report Share Posted March 26, 2003 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zero0w Posted March 26, 2003 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2003 Also, what happened to the fonts of GTK 1.2+ applications? They seems to be pretty ugly, unlike that of Mdk 9.0 which is pretty good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest joehill Posted March 26, 2003 Report Share Posted March 26, 2003 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. [/u] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zero0w Posted March 27, 2003 Author Report Share Posted March 27, 2003 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.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gregor Posted March 27, 2003 Report Share Posted March 27, 2003 This worked on 9.0, I would assume the same configuration is used. Nope. I also installed freetype & msfonts from: http://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distribut.../9.1/rpms/i586/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest joehill Posted March 27, 2003 Report Share Posted March 27, 2003 This worked on 9.0, I would assume the same configuration is used. Nope. you mean there's no etc/X11/XftConfig? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMage Posted March 27, 2003 Report Share Posted March 27, 2003 Nope.. read etc/X11/XftConfig.README-OBSOLETE I guess that because XFree 4.3 incorporates Xft inside. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest joehill Posted March 27, 2003 Report Share Posted March 27, 2003 crikey, but I can still disable AA through the method you provided, thanks for that. Cheers mate! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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