12.10+nvidia+compiz => ugly fonts [SOLVED]

Art Edwards edwardsa at icantbelieveimdoingthis.com
Thu Mar 14 09:52:06 UTC 2013


On 12/13/2012 09:18 AM, Art Edwards wrote:
> I'm running 12.10 on a quad core AMD box with an elderly nvidia (GeForce
> 9500 GT) graphics card and using gnome classic. In metacity, fonts look
> fine. When I turn on compiz, the fonts turn to crap. I'm using
> gnome-classic. I've read all I could find about compiz and I have been
> careful about blur features (none on). Any insight would be appreciated.
>
> Art Edwards
>
Finally found a remedy in the ArchLinux forum. FXAA is broken. If you
disable it in the nvidia settings tool, the fonts look fine in compiz.
Now I have a pretty acceptable gnome-fallback

Art Edwards




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