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beat

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Registered: 2009-05-24

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[Solved] cairo-ubuntu fontconfig

Okay I just installed Ubuntu's font libraries (freetype2-ubuntu, fontconfig-ubuntu, cairo-ubuntu, libxft-ubuntu) and this is my .fonts.conf

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
  <match target="font" >
    <edit mode="assign" name="rgba" >
      <const>rgb</const>
    </edit>
  </match>
  <match target="font" >
    <edit mode="assign" name="hinting" >
      <bool>true</bool>
    </edit>
  </match>
  <match target="font" >
    <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle" >
      <const>hintslight</const>
    </edit>
  </match>
  <match target="font" >
    <edit mode="assign" name="antialias" >
      <bool>true</bool>
    </edit>
  </match>
  <match target="font">
    <edit mode="assign" name="lcdfilter">
      <const>lcddefault</const>
    </edit>
  </match>
</fontconfig>

Everything works fine in Firefox, the fonts render pretty much like in Ubuntu. But on other GNOME applications nothings has changed.
A picture is worth a thousand words.

Any help would be appreciated.

Last edited by beat (2009-08-25 15:35:37)

brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

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Re: [Solved] cairo-ubuntu fontconfig

But on other GNOME applications nothing has changed.

Restart xorg.

Apps need to be closed & restarted, to use the patched libs and to re-query the fontconfig settings.

beat

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Registered: 2009-05-24

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Re: [Solved] cairo-ubuntu fontconfig

Already did that. In fact I already rebooted.

duister

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Re: [Solved] cairo-ubuntu fontconfig

Could you post a list of all the files/symlinks in your /etc/fonts/conf.d/ ?

beat

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Re: [Solved] cairo-ubuntu fontconfig

beat@darkstar: ~ $ ls -l /etc/fonts/conf.d/
total 4
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  31 2009-08-23 15:35 10-antialias.conf -> ../conf.avail/10-antialias.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  36 2009-08-23 15:35 10-hinting-slight.conf -> ../conf.avail/10-hinting-slight.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  29 2009-08-23 15:35 10-hinting.conf -> ../conf.avail/10-hinting.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  43 2009-08-23 15:35 11-lcd-filter-lcddefault.conf -> ../conf.avail/11-lcd-filter-lcddefault.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  39 2009-08-23 15:35 20-fix-globaladvance.conf -> ../conf.avail/20-fix-globaladvance.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  39 2009-08-23 15:35 20-unhint-small-vera.conf -> ../conf.avail/20-unhint-small-vera.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  45 2009-08-23 15:35 25-ttf-arphic-uming-render.conf -> ../conf.avail/25-ttf-arphic-uming-render.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  42 2009-08-23 15:35 29-replace-bitmap-fonts.conf -> ../conf.avail/29-replace-bitmap-fonts.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  33 2009-08-23 15:35 30-cjk-aliases.conf -> ../conf.avail/30-cjk-aliases.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  28 2009-08-23 15:35 30-defoma.conf -> ../conf.avail/30-defoma.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  36 2009-08-23 15:35 30-metric-aliases.conf -> ../conf.avail/30-metric-aliases.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  33 2009-08-23 15:35 30-urw-aliases.conf -> ../conf.avail/30-urw-aliases.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  46 2009-08-23 15:35 35-ttf-arphic-uming-aliases.conf -> ../conf.avail/35-ttf-arphic-uming-aliases.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  30 2009-08-23 15:35 40-nonlatin.conf -> ../conf.avail/40-nonlatin.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  38 2009-08-23 15:35 41-ttf-arphic-uming.conf -> ../conf.avail/41-ttf-arphic-uming.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  27 2009-08-23 15:35 45-latin.conf -> ../conf.avail/45-latin.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  31 2009-08-23 15:35 49-sansserif.conf -> ../conf.avail/49-sansserif.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  26 2009-08-23 15:35 50-user.conf -> ../conf.avail/50-user.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  27 2009-08-23 15:35 51-local.conf -> ../conf.avail/51-local.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  42 2009-08-23 15:35 53-monospace-lcd-filter.conf -> ../conf.avail/53-monospace-lcd-filter.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  27 2009-08-23 15:35 60-latin.conf -> ../conf.avail/60-latin.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  38 2009-08-23 15:35 64-ttf-arphic-uming.conf -> ../conf.avail/64-ttf-arphic-uming.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  35 2009-08-23 15:35 64-ttf-thai-tlwg.conf -> ../conf.avail/64-ttf-thai-tlwg.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  35 2009-08-23 15:35 65-fonts-persian.conf -> ../conf.avail/65-fonts-persian.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  30 2009-08-23 15:35 65-nonlatin.conf -> ../conf.avail/65-nonlatin.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  29 2009-08-23 15:35 69-unifont.conf -> ../conf.avail/69-unifont.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  31 2009-08-23 15:35 80-delicious.conf -> ../conf.avail/80-delicious.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  31 2009-08-23 15:35 90-synthetic.conf -> ../conf.avail/90-synthetic.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  47 2009-08-23 15:35 90-ttf-arphic-uming-embolden.conf -> ../conf.avail/90-ttf-arphic-uming-embolden.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  45 2009-08-23 15:35 90-ttf-thai-tlwg-synthetic.conf -> ../conf.avail/90-ttf-thai-tlwg-synthetic.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 959 2009-08-23 15:34 README

Here it is.

moose jaw

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From: Milwaukee

Registered: 2007-08-20

Posts: 104

Re: [Solved] cairo-ubuntu fontconfig

Have you tried starting up X without a .fonts.conf?  I found that on my system everything looked better after I just deleted .fonts.conf and started up without it.  I'm using the -ubuntu font packages from AUR, as well.

duister

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Registered: 2009-08-19

Posts: 6

Re: [Solved] cairo-ubuntu fontconfig

Looks to me like the subpixel smoothing isn't applied. Try symlinking /etc/fonts/conf.avail/10-subpixel-rgb.conf to /etc/fonts/conf.d/

brebs

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Re: [Solved] cairo-ubuntu fontconfig

this is my ~/.fonts.conf

Try mine.

sand_man

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Re: [Solved] cairo-ubuntu fontconfig

Maybe it's just me but I can't even tell a difference between those two screenshots...

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brebs

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Re: [Solved] cairo-ubuntu fontconfig

can't even tell a difference

Then your monitor sucks, or it isn't an *LCD* monitor

The "File Edit View" on the right is much crisper, i.e. not so blurred.

sand_man

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Re: [Solved] cairo-ubuntu fontconfig

can't even tell a difference

Then your monitor sucks, or it isn't an *LCD* monitor

The "File Edit View" on the right is much crisper, i.e. not so blurred.

Yes this monitor does suck (not mine, at work, paid for by the taxpayers )

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beat

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Re: [Solved] cairo-ubuntu fontconfig

this is my ~/.fonts.conf

Try mine.

That worked, thanks a lot!

markg85

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Re: [Solved] cairo-ubuntu fontconfig

this is my ~/.fonts.conf

Try mine.

I hope you don't mind but i added that to the wiki: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xor … _very_good

brebs

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Re: [Solved] cairo-ubuntu fontconfig

I hope you don't mind

Fine by me.

What I *do* mind is when people get the filename wrong, for the millionth-zillionth time

It's ~/.fonts.conf

markg85

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Re: [Solved] cairo-ubuntu fontconfig

I hope you don't mind

Fine by me.

What I *do* mind is when people get the filename wrong, for the millionth-zillionth time

It's ~/.fonts.conf

Just checked it and it says fonts.conf so that wasn't wrong (or you fixed it on the wiki)
edit: yes, you edited it. sorry for the wrong filename.

Last edited by markg85 (2009-08-28 17:38:26)

zen3

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Registered: 2009-09-02

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Re: [Solved] cairo-ubuntu fontconfig

this is my ~/.fonts.conf

Try mine.

On what fonts/packages it relies on?

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brebs

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Re: [Solved] cairo-ubuntu fontconfig

On what fonts/packages it relies on?

Look at the "Installation order" line in the PKGBUILD for cairo-ubuntu.

zen3

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Registered: 2009-09-02

Posts: 30

Re: [Solved] cairo-ubuntu fontconfig

So, I install the depencies on my Debian box and then just override my .fonts.conf with yours?

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vasyabelkin

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Re: [Solved] cairo-ubuntu fontconfig

brebs, thank you ! The fonts look much better now