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Athunye

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Registered: 2009-02-26

Posts: 33

Fonts: Monaco in Archlinux (solved)

I noticed that the font Monaco - which I love for coding, along with others,
like Deajvu Sans Mono and Inconsolata - does not render nicely in Archlinux. I have anoter
machine with Ubuntu, and it renders 'better'. It's not something that would prevent me from
using Arch as my default distro (I simply can't live without arch). I think there must be
something that could be done. I'm still lacking knowledge. Look at the difference yourselves:

In Ubuntu:
http://a.imageshack.us/img844/3301/vimm … ubuntu.png

In Archlinux:
http://a.imageshack.us/img713/4131/vimmonacoinarch.png

I am using with Openbox. If I use Gnome, the result is the same.

Any help would be appreciated.

Last edited by Athunye (2010-08-24 18:13:17)

karol

Archivist

Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Fonts: Monaco in Archlinux (solved)

Are you using the same style? Monaco on Ubuntu seems "fatter", like when using a bold font.
Other than that, they both render properly.

splittercode

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From: WI, USA

Registered: 2010-03-16

Posts: 203

Re: Fonts: Monaco in Archlinux (solved)

You'll need to install one of the LCD filter packages mentioned in this wiki entry

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Font_Configuration

For myself and many others they make fonts appear much smoother and just 'better' overall.  I think the Ubuntu packages are most commonly used, and they worked great for me with no configuration whatsoever. 
If you don't have a ~/.fonts.conf file you will probably want to set that up as well (also covered in the wiki entry above).

Last edited by splittercode (2010-08-24 17:54:36)

Athunye

Member

Registered: 2009-02-26

Posts: 33

Re: Fonts: Monaco in Archlinux (solved)

Karol:

Yes. I am using the same style. I noticed that even menus and panel fonts in Ubuntu
are 'fatter'. Not just in vim.

splittercode:

Those Ubuntu filter packages worked great.

Thank you guys. May the force be with you.

Last edited by Athunye (2010-08-24 18:12:55)