ubuntu fonts look awful

Scott Lockwood scott at guppylog.com
Tue May 1 16:38:00 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 18:58 +0300, rosty wrote:
> I have a 20,1 " LG monitor.
> 
> I'm trying to switch to Ubuntu from windows XP and struggled for the last 3
> days trying to make fonts on desktop look decent. I searched google and
> tried all sort of recipes. Even tried installing Tahoma microsoft fonts. But
> no joy.
> 
> Fonts are not clearly seen. When I increase their size then they start
> looking ugly. This message I'm writing from Windows, my eyes cannot stand
> Ubuntu fonts.
> 
> Any ideas? 

Since you have a valid liscense for Windows, copy it's fonts to your
ubuntu installation and use them under Ubuntu.

-- 
Regards,
Scott Lockwood





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