ugly on fonts on upgrade from F13 to F15

[suvayu ali]

Hi Gianfranco,

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Gianfranco Durin <gdurin at teletu.it> wrote:
> Suvayu,
> I do not know if you already solved this problem, which I had too in the
> last days.
>
> Just a few minutes ago I found in the list the solution. It is related to
> hinting, as you supposed, but the solution is very easy, as you can see
> below. Just set the autohint on soft linking the file autohint.conf under
> /etc/fonts/conf.d
>
> regards,
> Gianfranco

[...]

> See bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=708525
>

Thank you so much for responding. I saw that bug report. I forgot to
post back to the list with the solution. If you notice carefully, you
can see I commented on the bug report confirming the above solution
works for me. :)

> Also if you "yum install dconf-editor" you can poke
> around in org.gnome.desktop.interface and modify
> things like gtk-theme, cursor-theme, default font, etc.
>
> I've almost got my system back to where I no longer
> want to puke :-).

Thanks for this tip. I'll check it out.

Cheers,

-- 
Suvayu

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