HOWTO: Font de-uglification

[Gianni Exile]

This one's simple... set DisplaySize as in
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=20976
(Ignore all the other stuff there).

Now X11 has dpi 96. Make sure Gnome sees it, run
"gnome-font-properties" hit Details and double check it's 96.

Now type, as your regular user name at a shell prompt, for KDE and other Xft apps: echo "Xft.dpi:96" >> ~/.Xresources

Lastly, edit ~/.fonts.conf ... here's mine. I merely changed the range to exclude from antialiasing from sizes 8-15 (pixel size 11-20) to sizes 8-11 (pixel 11-15).

<?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>hintslight</const>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font" >
<edit mode="assign" name="rgba" >
<const>rgb</const>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font" >
<test compare="more" name="size" qual="any" >
<double>8</double>
</test>
<test compare="less" name="size" qual="any" >
<double>11</double>
</test>
<edit mode="assign" name="antialias" >
<bool>false</bool>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font" >
<test compare="more" name="pixelsize" qual="any" >
<double>11</double>
</test>
<test compare="less" name="pixelsize" qual="any" >
<double>15</double>
</test>
<edit mode="assign" name="antialias" >
<bool>false</bool>
</edit>
</match>
</fontconfig>


Restart X (ctrl-alt-bksp) or reboot.

Now both Gnome and KDE fonts will be rendered correctly.

[gnubios]

wow, thanx.. working here :P

[jonny]

What fonts is this going to de-uglify? My normal gnome fonts are great, but other apps (eg KDE) look horrible.

Do I need this how-to or not?

[Graben]

To fix your kde fonts just apt-get install kcontrol, and change them to what they are in gnome. And turn on font anti-aliasing.

[Gianni Exile]

To fix your kde fonts just apt-get install kcontrol, and change them to what they are in gnome. And turn on font anti-aliasing.

Which will write out the exact ~/.fonts.conf file I posted above...

[Sionide]

I'm gonna try this anyway but it would be nice to see before and after screenshots so people can see the difference

[Anguilla]

the resault is quite orrible, for me maybe I made a mistake...
I hope this is not what we have to get...

[veritas366]

system>preferences>font seems to have a lot of options. Maybe there aren't enough? I like my fonts..but I don't know much about all the various options. They change instantly, though, so you can check them out and switch to another option easily.