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Eldanen

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Registered: 2006-12-13

Posts: 13

Skinny, spindly Gnome fonts

I've been having a problem with Gnome where my fonts have been extremely skinny, sort of pixelated, and not anti-aliased at all.  Any help?

A screenshot:
http://img167.imageshack.us/my.php?imag … hotvy3.png

harlekin

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From: Germany

Registered: 2006-07-13

Posts: 408

Re: Skinny, spindly Gnome fonts

Your font look quite good to me. Cannot notice a different between your and mine fonts. oO

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Linteg

Member

From: Sweden

Registered: 2006-03-11

Posts: 54

Re: Skinny, spindly Gnome fonts

Fonts look thinner with sub-pixel hinting, try disabling it

Eldanen

Member

Registered: 2006-12-13

Posts: 13

Re: Skinny, spindly Gnome fonts

Looks somewhat better, perhaps slightly blurred in most applications.  In Firefox, the act of changing hinting didn't change a thing, though.  Any help on this?  Besides the fonts being thin, they are small.  And if I do ctrl +, they are too big .  I need a medium ground with these things.   

stonecrest

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From: Boulder

Registered: 2005-01-22

Posts: 1,190

Re: Skinny, spindly Gnome fonts

If your fonts are small, check that you have correctly set your DPI for X.

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Sekre

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From: The Rainy North

Registered: 2006-11-24

Posts: 116

Re: Skinny, spindly Gnome fonts

I'll further what stonecrest said. I had that problem when I switched to my laptop, had to manually set dpi to 96 I think...anyways there are good stuff about this in the wiki somewhere, couldn't find it rightaway though...

if you want to try this though, this is how I did.

# vim /usr/bin/startx

edit the following line like this (insert correct dpi)

defaultserverargs=" -dpi 96"

I think there is a better solution though....And in case you don't start your x-server with startx I this probably won't do much though....

byte

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From: Düsseldorf (DE)

Registered: 2006-05-01

Posts: 2,046

Re: Skinny, spindly Gnome fonts

In case you use 'startx', just edit ~/.xserverrc:

#!/bin/sh
exec Xorg -nolisten tcp -dpi 96

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iBertus

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From: Greenville, NC

Registered: 2004-11-04

Posts: 2,228

Re: Skinny, spindly Gnome fonts

If you're using GNOME you can just specify the correct DPI in the font configuration app. Your fonts look very good here. Very crisp and clear.

iphitus

Forum Fellow

From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-10-09

Posts: 4,927

Re: Skinny, spindly Gnome fonts

i find 75 dpi provides much crisper fonts.

James