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

narke wrote:
> 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
>

I think you should read this article:
http://www.linux-mag.com/2004-02/guru_01.html

/etc/fonts/local.conf and fonts.conf are the Xft (X font rendering engine)
configuration files. Slackware 10.1 uses a new version of Xft (version 2).
I believe, right now you don't have the 75dpi fonts listed in fonts.conf,
so you shuold be missing adobe-helvetica, for example, if you run xfontsel.
Me personally, I don't like antialias (font smoothing), that's why I turned
it off in local.conf.
You may want to tweak any gtkrc files you may have too (for Gnone applets)
as for KDE, I don't remember KDE uses QT library though (qtconfig ?).

I know it's a bit sketchy, I am not on 10.1 right now.

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