Ubuntu Gutsy Sub-pixel font changes

[Peter Domanski]

Stewart Williams wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I run Ubuntu and Fedora on my PC's with Gnome and I am aware that 
> something has been tweaked in Gutsy to improve the sub-pixel font 
> rendering on LCD displays. On all of my PC's Ubuntu fonts are far better 
> (for my eyes anyway) than Fedora 7/8; even the default setting of best 
> shapes medium looks better than Fedora, but even better still when I 
> enable Sub-pixel.
>
> What I would like to do is replicate the font rendering on Fedora to be 
> as good as Gutsy, but I have searched around and not been able to find 
> out _exactly_ what the Ubuntu team have done to achieve these results.
>
> As much as I play with the settings on Fedora, the still looks rubbish. 
> Especially worse in Thunderbird and Firefox (menus, dialogs, mails and 
> webpages)
>
> Can anyone help?
>
> Thanks
>
>   
What kind of desktop are you using KDE or Genome?. Most of the font 
rendering is embedded deeper into the desktop so unless you don't mind 
playing with the source code a little you probably won't be able to 
improve the font rendering by much. If you're using KDE try switching to 
Genome and make sure it's up to date.

Good luck.