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bredin

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From: sweden

Registered: 2008-06-28

Posts: 135

Font issue. Ugly fonts everywhere other than KDE?

I'm having problems getting nice fonts on my system, been testing xfce4, fluxbox and KDEmod 4.3. The thing is that when I installed KDEmod the font were great, but they are corny in fluxbox & xfce. I tested it in sperate installs. And I have all the KDE-repos in my pacman.conf so I should be able to get the same fonts in fluxbox as them in KDEmod. The question is how? The font-config wiki doesn't seem to make me any smarter. The thing I want to do: make KDE config the fonts without having to install the whole KDE suite.

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ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 19,815

Re: Font issue. Ugly fonts everywhere other than KDE?

I realize that "corny" is not exactly a technical term, but I think I can imagine what it might mean.  I assume you are displaying this on an LCD.  Are you using a screen geometry that matches the native resolution of the LCD? If not, weird things happen when the controller tries to scale the image.  Other than that, nothing comes to mind.

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jac

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From: /home/jac

Registered: 2009-05-19

Posts: 431

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Re: Font issue. Ugly fonts everywhere other than KDE?

I don't know much about fluxbox and such, but lxappearance did the trick for me on xmonad. Also, shouldn't xfce have it's own font config thing?

Raffles10

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From: London, UK

Registered: 2009-05-09

Posts: 115

Re: Font issue. Ugly fonts everywhere other than KDE?

Sounds like antialiasing & hinting issues. Do you have ~/.fonts.conf ? You could try this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
 <match target="font" >
  <edit mode="assign" name="hinting" >
   <bool>true</bool>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font" >
  <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle" >
   <const>hintfull</const>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font" >
  <edit mode="assign" name="rgba" >
   <const>rgb</const>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font" >
  <edit mode="assign" name="antialias" >
   <bool>true</bool>
  </edit>
 </match>
</fontconfig>

mikesd

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-02-01

Posts: 788

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Re: Font issue. Ugly fonts everywhere other than KDE?

@OP Posting some links to screen shots might help people understand your issue.

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thiagoc

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From: Brazil

Registered: 2009-02-14

Posts: 33

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Re: Font issue. Ugly fonts everywhere other than KDE?

Also try install some fonts like Droid and Liberation...

Last edited by thiagoc (2010-01-16 16:35:01)