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kpkeerthi
September 5th, 2008, 01:43 PM
Those who run Ubuntu (& Arch ;)) on a system with LCD monitor know already how good the fonts are rendered (with the clear-type patches to libxft, freetype & cairo packages).

Can someone here running PC-BSD tell me how the font rendering is on LCD?
kpkeerthi
September 8th, 2008, 08:06 AM
No PC-BSD users here?
mips
September 8th, 2008, 11:39 AM
I used pcbsd on my laptop a long time ago and from what I recall the fonts were fine.
kpkeerthi
September 8th, 2008, 11:59 AM
Thanks.

The latest PC-BSD looks cool. Although the default desktop environment is KDE, I might give it a whirl when the final is release.
LateNiteTV
September 11th, 2008, 12:04 AM
try compiling print/freetype2 with WITH_LCD_FILTERING.
kpkeerthi
September 28th, 2008, 06:18 PM
Tried PC-BSD. The default font rendering was terrible. Got the ports and compiled freetype with LCD filtering patch (Thanks LateNiteTv!). That made quite a huge difference.
But I didn't quite like PC-BSD. The KDE4.1 was terrible and the DE crashed often - not sure what crashed but I ended up having a blank desktop consistently. Only a restart could fix it and but it kept on crashing. Wiped the partition clean after playing with it for a couple of hours. Couldn't stand it for long. Worst *NIX experience.