Horrid fonts in Feisty
Gleb Dolgich
gleb at proggle.com
Wed May 2 18:17:22 UTC 2007
Marius Gedminas wrote:
>> In your font settings dialog box, try selecting "Best shapes" in "Font
>> rendering" section, then click on "Details..." and select "Grayscale" in
>> "Smoothing" section and "Slight" in "Hinting". Close the dialogs and
>> restart GDM (or just reboot), see if that helps.
>
> That depends whether your monitor is a CRT or a LCD. "Grayscale" is
> okay for CRTs. "Subpixel" looks 3 times better on LCDs.
I have an LCD and I can see that subpixel rendering is still being used;
most probably the "Best shapes" setting overrides the "Grayscale" one.
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