Arch Linux

thibdb13

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From: Mechelen - Belgium

Registered: 2005-10-11

Posts: 114

General look

I know it is very subjective but I find the look of archlinux (under kde) a bit ugly compared to what slackware or suse can offer. Fonts are really far from making me happy...
Can someone recommand an howto or a link on how to improve the situation.

thanks

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: General look

This any use? Search the forum as well - there have been plenty of font-related threads.

slackhack

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Registered: 2004-06-30

Posts: 738

Re: General look

what hardware are you using? CRT or LCD? can you provide some screenshots? i had to modify ~/.fonts.conf to get decent fonts in arch with LCD, although others say it wasn't an improvement and they preferred the original, thin and spindly look.

ozar

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From: USA

Registered: 2005-02-18

Posts: 1,686

Re: General look

I know it is very subjective but I find the look of archlinux (under kde) a bit ugly compared to what slackware or suse can offer. Fonts are really far from making me happy...
thanks

"Subjective" is certainly the correct word here, because I just installed the latest Suse and Mandriva last night to see how they looked and thought the fonts sucked in both of them compared to Arch.  I used to be a big fan of Slackware's out-of-the-box fonts, but now don't care for them, either.

Not sure, but maybe the difference is in the monitors used to display them, or perhaps it's just a matter of getting used to looking at the fonts in a particular distro...   

i had to modify ~/.fonts.conf to get decent fonts in arch with LCD, although others say it wasn't an improvement and they preferred the original, thin and spindly look.

Yep, I like the fonts "as is" on my Samsung SynMaster LCD.  They are very sharp and clear.   8)

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oz