Installing the lxqt metapackage

[farinet at arcor.de]

Hitesh Shah:
> On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 3:19 PM, <farinet at arcor.de> wrote:
> 
>> > ... <lubuntu-users-request at lists.ubuntu.com>
>> > At a first glance: It's my impression that font rendering and hinting is
>> > not as brilliant as it is usually in all (*)ubuntus. Or am i wrong?
>> >
> It's possible but I didn't notice this time around. The reason for not
> noticing is that I've also been using the Openbox session of Lubuntu for a
> while and the fonts did need fixing. I had to do things to ~/.Xresources to
> fix matters. So the LXQt session maybe influenced by the contents of that
> file.
> 
> My ~/.Xresources looks like this:
> 
> ! Render setting for cairo -> pango -> gtk
> Xft.dpi:        96
> Xft.antialias:  true
> Xft.hinting:    true
> Xft.rgba:       rgb
> Xft.hintstyle:  hintslight
> 
> and I made that file based on advice from
> http://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/Better_Font_Rendering
> 
> Of course, things may or may not work the same way for you but all the best!
> 

Here is the link:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2145211&page=2&highlight=ubuntu+font+rendering+debian

The proposed settings on page 2 work just fine (and are very similar to
something i found on arch wiki.

Cheers.