edgy fuzzy fonts bad

Tue Oct 31 17:54:48 UTC 2006

On Tuesday 31 October 2006 12:03 pm, Vayu wrote:

> I just upgraded Dapper with KDE 3.5.5 and after that all Gnome
> applications and dialogs had horrible fonts. It was cured by going to
> the KDE settings/appearance &themes/fonts, unchecking the antialiasing
> checkbox, applying the change, rechecking the antialiasing checkbox,
> applying the change and then restarting X.

This sounds like it might be spot on.  Debian Sid went through something like 
this a bit back, with new versions of libsomething.  All kinds of font 
ugliness was corrected by flipping the antialiasing setting and then logging 
back in.  This could be related to the same libsomething change.

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