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icanfly0307

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Registered: 2009-01-19

Posts: 16

Fonts not antialiased in GNOME

Hi all, I installed gnome on my arch linux installation last night. everything is running smoothly except for the fonts. They look jagged and i don't think they're antialiased. I've tried turning on "Subpixel Smoothing" in System > Preferences > Appearance > Fonts. I'm using "Sans 10" for my fonts at 95 dpi. How do I get my fonts to look good and not all jagged? tried looking in the wiki, but i couldn't find anything. any help appreciated. thanks.

flamelab

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From: Athens, Hellas (Greece)

Registered: 2007-12-26

Posts: 2,160

Re: Fonts not antialiased in GNOME

Install cairo-cleartype freetype2-cleartype libxft-cleartype

and relogin into GNOME.

icanfly0307

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Registered: 2009-01-19

Posts: 16

Re: Fonts not antialiased in GNOME

Thanks for your reply, flamelab. I typed in "pacman -S cairo-cleartype freetype2-cleartype libxft-cleartype" but i get an error that those packages don't exist in the sync db... any thoughts? thanks again.

flamelab

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From: Athens, Hellas (Greece)

Registered: 2007-12-26

Posts: 2,160

Re: Fonts not antialiased in GNOME

They are on AUR.

thunderogg

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From: Rio de Janeiro

Registered: 2008-07-13

Posts: 172

Re: Fonts not antialiased in GNOME

Did you install gnome-extra?

icanfly0307

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Registered: 2009-01-19

Posts: 16

Re: Fonts not antialiased in GNOME

thanks everyone, i managed to solve my problem. All i had to do was this:

pacman -S ttf-ms-fonts ttf-dejavu ttf-bitstream-vera

Hope this helps someone with my problem...