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n0gabor

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From: Hungary / Budapest

Registered: 2006-02-10

Posts: 95

When using unaliased fonts GTK2 apps look messy

I use antialiasing with exclude range of 8-13px, the small fonts are readable this way. But the same error occurs when using no antialiased fonts. (i use verdana or arial, but the result is the same)

the GTK2 apps look like on the picture below:

[URL=http://img141.imageshack.us/my.php?image=unaliasedgtk21hc.jpg][/URL]

i've tried with xfce4, but its the same. i tried to uninstall gtk-qt-engine, and delete the configs, tried some gtk-engines, but didnt solve anything...

n0gabor

Member

From: Hungary / Budapest

Registered: 2006-02-10

Posts: 95

Re: When using unaliased fonts GTK2 apps look messy

nobody has the same problem?

n0gabor

Member

From: Hungary / Budapest

Registered: 2006-02-10

Posts: 95

Re: When using unaliased fonts GTK2 apps look messy

UP

jaboua

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Registered: 2005-11-05

Posts: 634

Re: When using unaliased fonts GTK2 apps look messy

nobody has the same problem?

Nope... But I had a similar issue (very over-blurred fonts in GTK apps) not long ago - but before I managed to find out why, a script I was working on managed to bork the system by going wild and changing permissions all over the place... So I reinstalled instead of trying to figure out the original permissions, and then everything worked fine again.

If it's not urgent to use your system, and you don't get any other answers, I would suggest that you tried a reinstall.

JGC

Developer

Registered: 2003-12-03

Posts: 1,664

Re: When using unaliased fonts GTK2 apps look messy

Are you using nvidia drivers? It seems that unaliased fonts in GTK apps are broken when Render Acceleration is enabled with the nvidia drivers.

iBertus

Member

From: Greenville, NC

Registered: 2004-11-04

Posts: 2,228

Re: When using unaliased fonts GTK2 apps look messy

No problems here... I'm using nvidia w/ RenderAccel and it all works fine.

jaboua

Member

Registered: 2005-11-05

Posts: 634

Re: When using unaliased fonts GTK2 apps look messy

Are you using nvidia drivers? It seems that unaliased fonts in GTK apps are broken when Render Acceleration is enabled with the nvidia drivers.

I use nvidia, but I wasn't using render acceleration when the blurry-font thingie happened

oseb

Member

From: Busan, Korea

Registered: 2005-05-26

Posts: 31

Re: When using unaliased fonts GTK2 apps look messy

append anitalisa false setting in your "/etc/font/local.conf" or "~/.fonts"

this is my setting.

        <match>
                <test>
                        <string>Batang</string>
                        <string>BatangChe</string>
                        <string>Gungsuh</string>
                        <string>GungsuhChe</string>
                        <string>Gulim</string>
                        <string>GulimChe</string>
                        <string>Dotum</string>
                        <string>DotumChe</string>
                </test>
                <test>
                        <double>11</double>
                </test>
                <test>
                        <double>25</double>
                </test>
                <edit>
                        <bool>false</bool>
                </edit>
        </match>

n0gabor

Member

From: Hungary / Budapest

Registered: 2006-02-10

Posts: 95

Re: When using unaliased fonts GTK2 apps look messy

JGC thanks for the advice!!!

I'm using a 6800GS with nvidia driver
and switching to "RenderAccel" "False" solved the problem

fortunately i'm not using programs that needs render acceleration, and the desktop seems to respond fast enough too.

thanks again![/b]

n0gabor

Member

From: Hungary / Budapest

Registered: 2006-02-10

Posts: 95

Re: When using unaliased fonts GTK2 apps look messy

it seems that "RenderAccel" "True" and the GTK2 unaliased fonts are works together with the newest nvidia drivers in testing repo.
(1.0-8756)

so nvidia solved the problem.

iBertus

Member

From: Greenville, NC

Registered: 2004-11-04

Posts: 2,228

Re: When using unaliased fonts GTK2 apps look messy

it seems that "RenderAccel" "True" and the GTK2 unaliased fonts are works together with the newest nvidia drivers in testing repo.
(1.0-8756)

so nvidia solved the problem.

I'm using this driver, so maybe that's why I didn't have any issues to report.