Firefox Anti-Aliased Fonts in KDE

dave.roberts · 2005-04-19 00:46:54

Hi all. I use KDE and have all fonts anti-aliased by default. How do I extend this so Firefox gets the same treatment. Some pages look horrible, as shown below. Thanks!

shadowhand · 2005-04-19 04:04:17

Look at ~/.fonts.conf . Specifically, check hinting. What you probably want is Full Hinting for fonts. This _should_ solve your problem. The other thing to check is you GTK settings. There's a program called switch2 in the extra repository that lets you switch the GTK theme and set the font.

phrakture · 2005-04-19 04:23:36

check about:config in firefox... do a search for "xft" and make sure it's all "on" or "true" or whatever...

dave.roberts · 2005-04-20 17:27:35

my .fonts.conf

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

What should I turn on? What does Full Hinting do? I'm not sure I want the small fonts to be AAed.

Also, in about:config, there is no setting that shows up when filtering xft

phrakture · 2005-04-20 18:57:24

dave.roberts wrote:

Also, in about:config, there is no setting that shows up when filtering xft

huh, they must have removed it - I don't have it anymore either.... *shrug*

try setting this:

<edit mode="assign" name="hinting" >
   <bool>false</bool>
  </edit>

dave.roberts · 2005-04-20 19:46:10

Thanks, that seemed to turn it on.
It makes some sites look better, however, some sites still have a problem, but I suspect that's a font size problem. I would turn the default font size up, but for most sites it makes the text very large!

phrakture · 2005-04-20 19:54:38

you can try setting the fonts used in firefox differently - check "about:config" and filter by "font" - compare those to the fonts being used by konq and make some changes.... *shrug*

dave.roberts · 2005-04-20 20:11:59

Thanks for the reply, for now I'm going to use Konqueror if I really really need to squint my eyes in FireFox

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