Tired of Antialiased fonts in Gnome 2.0.x?

[Guest daimoni]

Well! Disable them! Easy job:

 

Open terminal,

1. emacs .bashrc

(you can open the file in your favourite text editor if you don't like emacs)

 

(/home/youraccount/.bashrc)

 

2. add line

export GDK_USE_XFT=0

 

3. type "ctrl-x-s" to save document

(if you use emacs)

 

4. Restart X (ctrl-alt-backspace)

 

5. Done! Enjoy new, fresh, non antialiased fonts.

 

... and don't forget to visit

http://www.mandrakequickhacks.tk

[Guest glaston]

Why disable anti-aliasing? To achieve a sloppier look? What are the benefits of having non anti-aliased fonts?

[beesea]

in some cases, antialiasing looks worse. on my system, i had to turn off aa in mozilla cause the fonts looked so bad. in kde, certain fonts look worse when they're antialiased. i don't even notice an improvement in gnome. but then again, this is just my system. obviously aa seems to improve fonts for most everyone

[johnnyv]

was that for small font sizes?, did the larger font sizes look alright in moz?

 

I recall reading a tut on how to disable antialiased fonts under a certain size, so you have the effect on the larger fonts.

But i can't remember where i saw the tut :?

[beesea]

was that for small font sizes?, did the larger font sizes look alright in moz?

 

I recall reading a tut on how to disable antialiased fonts under a certain size, so you have the effect on the larger fonts.

 

you can play around with settings in /etc/X11/Xftconfig to adjust font sizes for aa, but that's not really what my problem was. the small, un-antialiased fonts were the only ones that looked good for me. that's actually what got me thinking that i had to disable aa in mozilla.

[Cannonfodder]

I tried this to see what the difference would be in opera, but the before/after screen shots I took didn't show any difference.. what am I looking for?

[beesea]

you should see some shading around the antialiased fonts. you can see it better with xmag

[Guest joehill]

will this just disable AA in Gnome and Gnome apps (ie. Gedit)?

 

or will I find my much-adored AA fonts in Mozilla gone as well?

[beesea]

mozilla handles aa on its own, so it shouldn't be affected

[bvc]

Or, just change the values in /etc/profile.d/gtk2.sh and gtk2.csh...these are global.

 

0 for off

1 for on

 

gtk2.sh

# Make sure GDK_USE_XFT is set

if [ -z "$GDK_USE_XFT" ]; then

 case "${LANGUAGE}${LC_ALL}${LC_CTYPE}${LANG}" in 

# the provided japanese fonts are not recognized by Xft

       ja*) GDK_USE_XFT="0";;

       # we lack Greek scalable fonts

       el*) GDK_USE_XFT="0";;

       # we lack georgian scalable fonts

       ka*) GDK_USE_XFT="0";;

       # we lack arabic scalable fonts

       ar*|ur*|fa*) GDK_USE_XFT="0";;

       # the provided hebrew Type1 fonts are bugged, don't work in Xft

       he*|yi*) GDK_USE_XFT="0";;

       # default is to support Xft.

       *) GDK_USE_XFT="1";;

  esac

  export GDK_USE_XFT

fi

gtk2.csh

# Make sure GDK_USE_XFT is set

if ( ! $?GDK_USE_XFT ) then

set value=''

if ($?LANGUAGE) then

   set value=${LANGUAGE}

endif

if ($?LC_ALL) then

   set value=${value}${LC_ALL}

endif

if ($?LC_CTYPE) then

   set value=${value}${LC_CTYPE}

endif

if ($?LANG) then

   set value=${value}${LANG}

endif



if ( $value == '') then

   set value=C

endif



switch ($value)

       # the provided japanese fonts are not recognized by Xft

       case ja*: 

       # we lack Greek scalable fonts

case el*:

       # we lack georgian scalable fonts

       case ka*: 

       # we lack arabic scalable fonts

       case ar*:

case ur*:

case fa*:

       # the provided hebrew Type1 fonts are bugged, don't work in Xft

       case he*:

case yi*: 

    setenv GDK_USE_XFT 1

    breaksw

       # default is to support Xft.

       default: 

    setenv GDK_USE_XFT 1

endsw

endif

 

There's also a qtxft3.sh and .csh