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dxxvi

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Registered: 2011-07-23

Posts: 126

Xubuntu 18.04.1 displays Noto font better than Arch in VirtualBo. Why?

Hi All,

I have VirtualBox 5.0.20 running in Windows 7 at work. I installed both Xubuntu and Arch in it and Noto Fonts in each VM. The xfce4-terminal in Xubuntu displays Noto Sans Mono smoothlier than that in Arch (I already tried freetype2-infinality but the result is still the same). Does anybody know the reason and how to make Arch look better?

Regards.

headkase

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Registered: 2011-12-06

Posts: 2,004

Re: Xubuntu 18.04.1 displays Noto font better than Arch in VirtualBo. Why?

Make sure anti-aliasing and subpixel hinting are enabled.  Arch doesn't enable anything for you, Arch packages are as close to upstream as possible.  Xubuntu on the other hand comes with all sorts of Canonical patches and pre-configured settings.

brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

Posts: 3,742

Re: Xubuntu 18.04.1 displays Noto font better than Arch in VirtualBo. Why?

In the Xubuntu installation, are there any interesting results returned from...

find /etc/fonts/ -type f | xargs grep -i noto