Font Rendering

[screamin_jesus]

Ubuntu's font rendering was really smooth and antialiased on my LCD, similar to cleartype on windows, in fedora 8 they are very rough and ugly. I have subpixel hinting enabled but it doesn't look nearly as good as ubuntu. I tried installing the freetype-freeworld from livna but it didn't change anything. I have a 19 inch widescreen LCD at 1440x900@60hz

[screamin_jesus]

The fonts are all small and jagged, VERY hard to read. I want it to look loike ubuntu's subpixle rendering and Cleartype on Vista/XP.

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[leadgolem]

Have you tried using best contrast mode? You also might want to increase your dpi a bit.

[screamin_jesus]

best contrast looks really blurry, increasing my dpi to what it was in ubuntu and windows 996) makes the fonts massive and blurry.

[screamin_jesus]

Any suggestions? I thought installing freetype-freeworld from livna would turn the bytecode subpixel rendering on like it is in ubuntu, do I have to do anything else besides installign it?

[screamin_jesus]

I can't find anything on how tog et this working on fedora 8.
This is my ubuntu desktop with amazing looking fonts, this is what I need in fedora, this crap is seriously hurting my eyes.

http://threatdown.deviantart.com/art...sktop-66035207

[MellonCollie]

The Ubuntu devs tinkered with font rendering in 7.10. I don't know what it was they did, but it certainly looks better than the default rendering in Fedora, even with freetype-freeworld installed.

[wh0rd]

Yup, just switched from Ubuntu, the first thing I've noticed is the font.

[angryfirelord]

Increase the font size.

Honestly, just play around with it a little bit. I have mine set to 13 pt at a 1024x768 resolution. For larger screens, you'll have to up it a little bit.

[rexbinary]

In the Appearance Preferences, Font Tab, Details Button and if your using an LCD:

Set your Smoothing to Subpixel.
Set Hinting to Full.
Set your Subpixel Order to use VRGB (Vertical RGB).

Most LCDs will look better using VRGB ordering. XP/Vista uses a vertical scheme as well.

It might also help to set the font resolution to 96 as well while your there.

[lsatenstein]

I have a problem with font size within firefox. When my system is started after a new install, it comes up at 1600x2000, which is OK, as the monitor resolution is that. I have switched to preferences wherein I found the pixels per font option and bumped it up until the menu lettering was or is acceptable. BUT Firefox menus remain at the tiny resolution size. Playing with the firefox parameters for font size did not help. The menu appears to be a font size of 8 at a resolution of 1600x2000. Any recommendations?

[Seve]

Originally Posted by lsatenstein

I have a problem with font size within firefox. When my system is started after a new install, it comes up at 1600x2000, which is OK, as the monitor resolution is that. I have switched to preferences wherein I found the pixels per font option and bumped it up until the menu lettering was or is acceptable. BUT Firefox menus remain at the tiny resolution size. Playing with the firefox parameters for font size did not help. The menu appears to be a font size of 8 at a resolution of 1600x2000. Any recommendations?

Hello:
What is the output of
xdpyinfo | grep -B1 dot


Seve

[rexbinary]

Firefox has a 'Minimum Font Size' option that is set to None by default. Try setting that and see if that helps. I set mine to 11.

The fonts in firefox look very tiny to me and its barely readable. Anyway to increase it permanently ?? Am on FC 8

[leadgolem]

In firefox, Edit/preferences, content tab. Click advanced in the fonts and colors section. Then click on the minimum font size in the drop down. Set it to your desired size, then click ok.

Thanks rexbinary, I hadn't seen that option before.