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Old 02-20-2008, 08:24 AM
narke
 
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Default Re: X fonts looks ugly


nabis wrote:
> narke wrote:
> > i use FVWM as primary windows manager, there the fonts looks

beautiful.
> > but occasionally i need to run KDE and Gnome, esspecailly i need to

run
> > lots of KDE and Gnome apps. In KDE and Gnome, however, i found the
> > fonts looks ugly. the gtk-2.0/gtkrc configurated a 'bitstream vera
> > san' for the only 'user-font' secion. now i want to ask,
> >
> > 1, is there any differences between FVWM and KDE in the sense of
> > handling fonts. why FVWM look good whereas KDE looks ugly?
> >
> > 2, where can i check what fonts the FVWM used? if so, i guess i can

let
> > KDE to use it. right?
> >
> > -
> > narke
> >

>
> In 10.1 you may want to:
>
> man fontconfig
> less /etc/fonts/fonts.conf
> vim /etc/fonts/local.conf
>

----------------------------------------------------------------------
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
> <!-- /etc/fonts/local.conf overrides fonts.conf -->
> <fontconfig>
>
> <!-- additional directories -->
> <dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi</dir>
> <dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cylillic</dir>
> <dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF</dir>
>
> <!-- turn off antialias -->
> <match target="font">
> <edit name="antialias" mode="assign">
> <bool>false</bool>
> </edit>
> </match>
> </fontconfig>


what will happen if i do this you suggested as well as trun on the well
known freetype option (sorry i do not remember the name of that, but it
is about turning on anti-alias system widely) ?

-
narke

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