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Skittles

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From: Bochum (Ger)

Registered: 2007-07-21

Posts: 36

Once again: ugly fonts

Hi everyone,

with the cairo-update today, i updated my cairo-lcd package and after that my fonts in GTK-applications look pretty ugly, in qt-Apps they are still nice.  After that I tried the -ubuntu packages which made it even worse, so I switched back to -lcd. Does anyone have a clue?

On top: The new look, on the bottom the old one

Last edited by Skittles (2008-04-20 17:30:28)

Martyr

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From: Out there

Registered: 2006-10-04

Posts: 103

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Re: Once again: ugly fonts

Assuming you followed the wiki (including removing your existing font config) the only thing I can offer is to check whether hinting is set at Slight. Anything else makes fonts ugly for me as well. Using -ubuntu here, which looks absolutely gorgeous.

Skittles

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From: Bochum (Ger)

Registered: 2007-07-21

Posts: 36

Re: Once again: ugly fonts

You may give me the link to the wiki-page, because i did not remove anything except one symbolic link. i think i'm to stupid to find it by my own

Martyr

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From: Out there

Registered: 2006-10-04

Posts: 103

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Re: Once again: ugly fonts

Well, that makes two of us... I SWEAR it was there. Hehe.

Luckily, someone wrote the procedure down I was referring to: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 85#p309385

Edit: replace -lcd with -ubuntu, and append -ubuntu to fontconfig. That should do it.

Last edited by Martyr (2008-04-20 18:33:18)

grizzeledtop

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From: Zurich, Switzerland

Registered: 2006-03-08

Posts: 30

Re: Once again: ugly fonts

The wiki link: wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fonts#Beautify_Fonts_for_LCD_in_X

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