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Greetings. I'm in the process of installingArch and I must be missing something as fonts just aren't antialiasing. Any help would be appreciated. I'm using the Fonts guide on the wiki. Here's the steps I did:
pacman -Rd libxft
yaourt -S fontconfig-lcd cairo-lcd
pacman -S libxft-lcd
Freetype is installed and I linked what I could to /etc/fonts/conf.d/:
10-autohint.conf 40-nonlatin.conf 65-nonlatin.conf
10-sub-pixel-rgb.conf 45-latin.conf 69-unifont.conf
20-fix-globaladvance.conf 49-sansserif.conf 70-no-bitmaps.conf
20-unhint-small-vera.conf 50-user.conf 80-delicious.conf
29-replace-bitmap-fonts.conf 51-local.conf 90-synthetic.conf
30-metric-aliases.conf 60-latin.conf README
30-urw-aliases.conf 65-fonts-persian.conf
I've tried changing settings in the KDE control center from "System Settings" to Enabled, started a new app. But no luck. I've created a basic ~/.fonts.conf that has antialiasing and hinting, logging out and logging in again to no avail. What got me was that fontconfig didn't install a 10-antialias.conf:
10-autohint.conf 25-unhint-nonlatin.conf 60-latin.conf
10-no-sub-pixel.conf 29-replace-bitmap-fonts.conf 65-fonts-persian.conf
10-sub-pixel-bgr.conf 30-metric-aliases.conf 65-khmer.conf
10-sub-pixel-rgb.conf 30-urw-aliases.conf 65-nonlatin.conf
10-sub-pixel-vbgr.conf 40-nonlatin.conf 69-unifont.conf
10-sub-pixel-vrgb.conf 45-latin.conf 70-no-bitmaps.conf
10-unhinted.conf 49-sansserif.conf 70-yes-bitmaps.conf
20-fix-globaladvance.conf 50-user.conf 80-delicious.conf
20-unhint-small-vera.conf 51-local.conf 90-synthetic.conf
Is this the problem? Obviously I'm missing a step here. Any ideas, what do I need to do?
Last edited by Kisha (2009-03-05 01:18:41)
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The monster Gentoo thread probably has the answer to this.
Check that you have /etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf , to actually *use* your ~/.fonts.conf
Last edited by brebs (2009-03-04 23:36:25)
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Dallied through the thread and didn't find anything. No luck thus far. Looks like this is a system-wide problem as KDM in not antialiasing. Change to a new ~/.fonts.conf:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
<match target="font" >
<edit mode="assign" name="rgba" >
<const>rgb</const>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font" >
<edit mode="assign" name="hinting" >
<bool>true</bool>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font" >
<edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle" >
<const>hintslight</const>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font" >
<edit mode="assign" name="antialias" >
<bool>true</bool>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font">
<edit mode="assign" name="lcdfilter">
<const>lcddefault</const>
</edit>
</match>
</fontconfig>
but the problem persists. Argh, this is tough. Did I possibly forget something?
Last edited by Kisha (2009-03-05 00:03:19)
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Got it figured out. KDE displayed selection of fonts as Sans Serif... so I thought that pacman xorg kda installed some basic fonts. Appreciate the help brebs. Marking as done.
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