On 02/06/2011 03:57 PM, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
> Now I'm wondering if there is a way to get the font rendering to look
> different.
I'm on Fedora 14 and mine looks like this (which is more similar to your
Ubuntu screenshot than the Fedora one):
http://imagebin.org/136443
The only thing I did after a fresh installation was to install the
freetype-freeworld package (which is the regular freetype package but
compiled with the bytecode interpreter enabled). You need the RPMFusion
(non-free) repo for that. After that, I just changed the settings to this:
Smoothing --> (Subpixel (LCDs)
Hinting ----> Slight
Subpixel Order ---> RGB
I know talking about how great or bad fonts look is highly subjective...
but I totally agree there's a big difference between the 2 screenshots
your presented. The font rendering in Fedora, out of the box, is not at
the same level of neatness as that of Ubuntu.
HTH,
Jorge
Thanks. My desktop looks a lot better now.
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-- Steve