rldev Posted November 6, 2009 Report Share Posted November 6, 2009 My fonts look terrible after 2010 update. I have no problem with my laptop that updated last night, but my desktop looks terrible, no matter what I change. I have the same exact settings on both my laptop(looks great) and desktop. The resolution for my monitor is set correctly (1920 x 1080 24 inch screen). I'm not sure what else I can try. Any ideas besides reinstalling? Thanks. [moved from Software by Greg2] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted November 6, 2009 Report Share Posted November 6, 2009 Check on both machines, and see what font packages you might have installed, for example: rpm -qa | grep -i font rpm -qa | grep -i ttf and compare the results of the both commands. If anything missing from the desktop that appears on the laptop, install the respective package, restart X and then see how things look. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rldev Posted November 6, 2009 Author Report Share Posted November 6, 2009 I think I have it ok now after tweaking every app. The main problem I still see is coloration around letters like "a". I do not see this on my laptop(which 3 years old). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pindakoe Posted November 6, 2009 Report Share Posted November 6, 2009 The main problem I still see is coloration around letters like "a". I do not see this on my laptop(which 3 years old). Sounds like a different setting for hinting (sub-pixel addressing, i.e. switching on/off the individual RGB pixels to get higher resolution and better approximate round shapes like o, a, e etc. I can tweak this in my desktop settings (using Xfce), but no doubt Gnome & KDE will have ways of tweaking this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2 Posted November 6, 2009 Report Share Posted November 6, 2009 I would also suggest checking what libfreetype package you have installed with rpm -qa | grep libfreetype if it's a plf rpm, you may want to replace it with the mdv rpm. The plf package (rpm) has bytecode interpreter and subpixel hinting enabled. So unless you know how to set up your subpixel rendering properly, you may want to use the mdv rpm and the default font system settings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted November 7, 2009 Report Share Posted November 7, 2009 If you have an nvidia card and you are using the proprietary driver then you may have better luck applying antialiasing settings from there ( alt+ F2 and "nvidia-settings" ) overriding the application settings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rldev Posted November 7, 2009 Author Report Share Posted November 7, 2009 I would also suggest checking what libfreetype package you have installed with rpm -qa | grep libfreetype rpm -qa | grep libfreetype libfreetype6-2.3.11-1mdv2010.0 libfreetype6-2.3.9-1.2mdv2009.1 How do you set font to default in Mandriva Gnome? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rldev Posted November 7, 2009 Author Report Share Posted November 7, 2009 Here is a screenshot. Look at the word "millions". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2 Posted November 7, 2009 Report Share Posted November 7, 2009 Before you change any settings, I would suggest removing libfreetype6-2.3.9-1.2mdv2009.1. It may be causing a conflict with your 2010.0 system. Then reboot the system and see if that helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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