Re: HOWTO: Make your fonts smooth enough to drool over.
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Originally Posted by kidrich
This may not be necessary -- A quick look at my Hoary box shows auto hinting is already enabled by default globally (for all users) in /etc/fonts/local.conf.
Yeah, Hoary has support for this in the Desktop Preferences. For Hinting, you can choose None, Slight, Medium, and Full and it has an example of each. I'd post a screenshot, but pressing Print Screen results a message saying gnome-panel-screenshot can't be found, and a quick trip to Synaptic turns up zilch. :-?
Re: HOWTO: Make your fonts smooth enough to drool over.
Anyone who doesn't have Hoary (cuz of the screenshots dilemma) able to take and post before & after pics? I'm trying to decide if it's really necessary.
Re: HOWTO: Make your fonts smooth enough to drool over.
install imagemagick (if it's not already) and from a commandline do;
import -window root -quality 85 ~/`date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S`-lg.png
or copy this and name it something ( I call it sysinfo.sh) and run it from a terminal;
sh sysinfo.sh
Code:
#!/bin/bash
echo !========================SYS===========================!
cat /etc/debian_version
cat /proc/version
echo #
echo !========================CPU===========================!
cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep "model name"
cat /proc/cpuinfo| grep "cpu MHz"
cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep "bogomips"
cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep "cache size"
echo #
echo !========================MEM===========================!
cat /proc/meminfo | grep "MemTotal"
cat /proc/meminfo | grep "MemFree"
cat /proc/meminfo | grep "SwapTotal"
cat /proc/meminfo | grep "SwapFree"
echo #
echo !========================VIDEO===========================!
#cat /proc/pci | grep audio
#cat /proc/pci | grep VGA
#cat /proc/pci | grep Ethernet
cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version
#cat ~/.fluxbox/version
echo #
echo !=====================SAY CHEESE=======================!
import -window root -quality 85 ~/`date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S`-lg.png
hey, what's up with the space?
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oh well
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Re: HOWTO: Make your fonts smooth enough to drool over.
Consider that it's a screenshot and it's also compressed. Real fonts are better.
Btw, I'm on hoary but I've copied my gnome-panel-screenshot binary and its glade file from my fedora install :-\"
Re: HOWTO: Make your fonts smooth enough to drool over.
wow that is a great fix. i wonder if it will be turned on by default in hoary? anyways, at least i have this fix, thank you very much!
Re: HOWTO: Make your fonts smooth enough to drool over.
OK what I was seeing before was complete placebo effect.
This is amazing! Sometimes the fonts seem a bit too fat, but most places this is freaking amazing. You rock!
Re: HOWTO: Make your fonts smooth enough to drool over.
Excellent fix, my eyes are now restrained away from the monitor...i can read them with ease \\:D/
Re: HOWTO: Make your fonts smooth enough to drool over.
What exactly does this do? My fonts seem bigger.
Re: HOWTO: Make your fonts smooth enough to drool over.
Re: HOWTO: Make your fonts smooth enough to drool over.
you can turn hinting on in the fonts menu in desktop preferences in Warty.
go to Computer>Desktop Preferences>Fonts
Click the "Details..." button.
Select amount of hinting
I chose "Full"
Restart X "ctrl+alt+bckspc"
Hopes this helps!
Ubuntu is the best linux distro- You will being seeing ALOT more of me here :-P