edgy fuzzy fonts bad

Santiago Erquicia santiago.erquicia at gmail.com
Wed Nov 1 02:54:55 UTC 2006


2006/10/31, golfer <golfbuf at gmail.com>:
> I don't like the fonts in edgy, compared to dapper.  They are too
> fuzzy.  In all applications, and all fonts, even the ttf I installed
> from my M$ partition.  It's a 10 on the yuck factor!
>
> It's particularly objectionable in konsole, with dejavu sans mono at
> 10 px.  It's very difficult to read.  I'm still downloading and
> installing, so can't try anything in gnome yet.
>
> I have an LCD with the nvidia-glx driver.
>
> Everything is cool in dapper, so I know it's an edgy problem.
>
> This is enough of a problem to make me stay with dapper.  I hope it
> can be fixed, but so far, I don't see any postings here or in the
> forums.
>
> Anyone else having this problem, or can help?
>
> TIA
>

What do you have under "Subpixel Order" when you go to System >
Preference > Font > Details?

I had VRGV instead of RGB which I used to have. Changing this back
solved my problem.

Santiago




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