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blackdeagle

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From: Karlsruhe, Germany

Registered: 2008-09-13

Posts: 47

No fonts after sub-pixel rendering

Hi,

Yes, I read the wiki
Yes, I searched the net

I want anti-aliased fonts on my system. According to the wiki, I got to install some cairo-lcd fonts and some other stuff. Now if I enable anti-aliasing in the system-settings and use sub-pixel rendering, I won't see any fonts at my next login.
What am I doing wrong?

freakcode

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From: São Paulo - Brazil

Registered: 2007-11-03

Posts: 410

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Re: No fonts after sub-pixel rendering

No need to install custom packages to have anti-aliased fonts. Those custom packages say to offer "better" antialiasing for LCD, but try the default package first.

To get antialiasing, you should just change that setting under KDE, Gnome or Xfce (if you use them), or configure on ~/.Xdefaults with:

xft.dpi:        96
xft.antialias:  true
xft.rgba:       rgb
xft.hinting:    true
xft.hintstyle:  hintslight

(Fore more: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xdefaults)

Your issue might be related to not installing the cairo-lcd packages or setting freetype correctly. Revert to the original packages first, and use the above config tips, it works nicely.

blackdeagle

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From: Karlsruhe, Germany

Registered: 2008-09-13

Posts: 47

Re: No fonts after sub-pixel rendering

Hi,
thx for your post

I exactly did as you said but it didn't solve the missing fonts issue
Any other idea?

brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

Posts: 3,742

Re: No fonts after sub-pixel rendering

Could be this pixman bug.