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kiguru

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Registered: 2007-11-27

Posts: 31

need some lcd font smoothing help in openbox?

hi guys
i really like openbox and want to make it my permanent wm the only difficulty i am facing now is the fonts.
i really like the subpixel smoothing trick in gnome.
how can i do it in openbox?

bionnaki

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Registered: 2006-09-05

Posts: 289

Re: need some lcd font smoothing help in openbox?

this has been discussed dozens of times. run a forum search. and check out the wiki.

here's one link to visit: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fon … r_LCD_in_X

kiguru

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Registered: 2007-11-27

Posts: 31

Re: need some lcd font smoothing help in openbox?

yeah i have already read, applied it and i can see its effect in gnome and xfce but in openbox fonts are still ugly.

fwojciec

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Registered: 2007-05-20

Posts: 1,411

Re: need some lcd font smoothing help in openbox?

The link bionnaki had provided lists everything that needs to be done for the fonts in any wm (including openbox) to use the lcd smoothing.  I use openbox as well and I have done nothing beyond what's in that wiki article.

kiguru

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Registered: 2007-11-27

Posts: 31

Re: need some lcd font smoothing help in openbox?

first of all i am sorry for late reply coz i was out of the town.
i dont know guys what the problem is but you can see below screenshots and compare

(1)first openbox

now gnome

gnome fonts look more smooth and rich but open box fonts look ugly. Specially "/" symbol in address bar is like zigzag in openbox.

and one more thing if i log in to gnome and logout and log in to open box then every thing is right.

any clue.

bionnaki

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Registered: 2006-09-05

Posts: 289

Re: need some lcd font smoothing help in openbox?

are you using the same .font.conf & .gtkrc-2.0 in both?

kiguru

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Registered: 2007-11-27

Posts: 31

Re: need some lcd font smoothing help in openbox?

thanks bionnaki for .font.conf hint i never had this file.i think xfce and gnome doesnt use it and it was not mentioned 
in wiki so i googled it, found a thread in geentoo forums regarding configuration of this file.
Now i m enjoying subpixel smoothing in openbox.
and i m sorry if this silly problem wasted your time.
thanx buddy

nucleuswizard

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2007-10-07

Posts: 79

Re: need some lcd font smoothing help in openbox?

thanks bionnaki for .font.conf hint i never had this file.i think xfce and gnome doesnt use it and it was not mentioned 
in wiki so i googled it, found a thread in geentoo forums regarding configuration of this file.
Now i m enjoying subpixel smoothing in openbox.
and i m sorry if this silly problem wasted your time.
thanx buddy

Could you post link to that thread...

brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

Posts: 3,742

Re: need some lcd font smoothing help in openbox?

See Gentoo xeffects thread.

esters

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Registered: 2006-11-04

Posts: 173

Re: need some lcd font smoothing help in openbox?

I had similar problem with fonts in openbox, in all the occasions the blame was for hinting, because if i choosed hintslight = Slight, it appeard as same as Medium. Hinslight = none made fonts look very bold , as for full, they were too thin.

My preffered combination is :
DPI - 96dpi
Smoothing - Subpixel
Hiting - Slight
Subpixel order - RGB