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chandan

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Registered: 2012-07-02

Posts: 6

kde vs i3wm font rendering

Hi all,

I am migrating from KDE to i3wm. I see a huge difference in the rendering of the fonts between kde font rendering and i3wm font rendering.

I would like to know how I can get i3wm to render fonts correctly.

beaverusiv

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From: Taupo, New Zealand

Registered: 2011-07-09

Posts: 41

Re: kde vs i3wm font rendering

Could be helpful:
http://faq.i3wm.org/question/183/how-to … -aliasing/

Just a sidenote: I reckon the fonts on i3wm s/s look way better than your KDE one.

chandan

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Registered: 2012-07-02

Posts: 6

Re: kde vs i3wm font rendering

Could be helpful:
http://faq.i3wm.org/question/183/how-to … -aliasing/

Just a sidenote: I reckon the fonts on i3wm s/s look way better than your KDE one.

I was looking for improving font rendering in apps running under i3wm. But the previous link talks about fonts in i3bar and i3 window titles.

beaverusiv

Member

From: Taupo, New Zealand

Registered: 2011-07-09

Posts: 41

Re: kde vs i3wm font rendering

I just did a Google search for

i3wm antialiasing OR hinting OR subpixel

maybe some similar search could yield results for you?

litemotiv

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Registered: 2008-08-01

Posts: 5,026

Re: kde vs i3wm font rendering

KDE overrides font rendering rules through it's preferences panel (System Settings > Appearance > Fonts), this should be a matter of finding out what tweaks you have made there and apply them to fontconfig manually.

Everything you need to know about font configuration should be available in the wiki. If you have questions about specific details it is fine to ask them here, but something like "how I can get i3wm to render fonts correctly" will only solicit generic responses obviously.

Start here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Font_Configuration

Tip: many people prefer Infinality for their advanced font tweaking needs.

Last edited by litemotiv (2012-11-27 08:31:56)

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chandan

Member

Registered: 2012-07-02

Posts: 6

Re: kde vs i3wm font rendering

KDE overrides font rendering rules through it's preferences panel (System Settings > Appearance > Fonts), this should be a matter of finding out what tweaks you have made there and apply them to fontconfig manually.

Everything you need to know about font configuration should be available in the wiki. If you have questions about specific details it is fine to ask them here, but something like "how I can get i3wm to render fonts correctly" will only solicit generic responses obviously.

Start here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Font_Configuration

Tip: many people prefer Infinality for their advanced font tweaking needs.

I noticed that KDE changes ~/.fonts.conf contents based on the changes made in 'system settings'. Since this file (even though deprecated) is used by fontconfig, it should cause the same rendering in other WMs as well.