gtk/gnome Fonts under fluxbox

Danilo Piazzalunga danilopiazza at libero.it
Sat Jan 29 16:33:28 UTC 2005


gregory gulrajani wrote:
> But under fluxbox all the fonts rendered by GTK/Gnome apps (gvim /
> firefox / thunderbird )  look odd. It is a bit hard to describe but
> they seem to have a reddish/fuzzy tint to them that i find very
> distracting. Is there some configuration i can manually set to clear up
> the fonts?

Try to reconfigure fontconfig ('sudo dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig') and try to
experiment with a different font rendering (bytecode interpreter, autohinter,
subpixel rendering). Remember you have to restart the application before you
can see any change.

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