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Re: HOWTO: Improve Font Rendering in LMDE

Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2010 9:27 pm
by craig10x
Kazmirzak wrote:"If you look at what the script does, it sets the resolution to 96dpi and sets LCD to slight already."

funny enough, I did a clean install of LMDE and applied all updates - and the settings above were already active, and my fonts look good as they should.
i am curious...do the fonts like look as good as they would on the main edition of mint?
and did it change with the updates you did? if so, i wonder if the mint team did something to it....

Re: HOWTO: Improve Font Rendering in LMDE

Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 4:12 pm
by burtb08
If you like the way Ubuntu does the font bit, have a look: http://lovingthepenguin.blogspot.com/20 ... ueeze.html

Re: HOWTO: Improve Font Rendering in LMDE

Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 8:36 pm
by leonbnu
burtb08 wrote:If you like the way Ubuntu does the font bit, have a look: http://lovingthepenguin.blogspot.com/20 ... ueeze.html
I actually followed this, but couldn't see any change, the font rendering was already looking good(just a little fuzzy) before i did this though.

Re: HOWTO: Improve Font Rendering in LMDE

Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 8:52 pm
by craig10x
maybe it is like the secret ingredient in coca cola...i wonder if clem will be able to able to figure out exactly what they do to make it so beautiful...
i'm typing this from a new Kubuntu 10.10 install and everything on here looks gorgeous :)
There's something they add that gives it the magic touch... :lol:

Re: HOWTO: Improve Font Rendering in LMDE

Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2010 4:17 am
by runningman
craigevil you are the man.Ikey`s fix was ok but the fix you supplied is amazing.I thought it was just this laptop cause windows didn`t look so good but now nice and sharp :mrgreen:

Re: HOWTO: Improve Font Rendering in LMDE

Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2010 10:17 am
by divot66
Nice job Ikey. I was beginning to think of giving up on LMDE. Worked like a charm.

Re: HOWTO: Improve Font Rendering in LMDE

Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2010 10:26 am
by craig10x
I've read on some blogs that what ubuntu has that LMDE would need is the libcairo2 patches...if that is true, i hope Clem reads this and looks into that..

Also..i was curious, in LMDE, do you have access to the new Ubuntu Fonts that became the default in Ubuntu 10.10?
Someone mentioned that you now have access to Mint 10 features, so i was wondering if ubuntu fonts was part of that...do you get that through debian
updates or through mint's own updates?

Re: HOWTO: Improve Font Rendering in LMDE

Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 6:19 pm
by sgosnell
This was apparently my problem earlier, when I couldn't run the appearance changer. I ran fixfonts.sh again today, and now I can't run it again. The conky window is wonky. This is on an Asus EEE-PC 900. Removing the ~.gconf/desktop folder and restarting X fixes the problem. Something in the script is putting incorrect configuration information there.

Re: HOWTO: Improve Font Rendering in LMDE

Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2010 8:04 am
by zole052
After executing fixfonts.sh script the tab fonts on chrome browser become too small :( Every other font is ok.
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Re: HOWTO: Improve Font Rendering in LMDE

Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2010 10:25 am
by zole052
zole052 wrote:After executing fixfonts.sh script the tab fonts on chrome browser become too small :( Every other font is ok.
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After a shutdown everything is as it should be, problem solved :oops:

Re: HOWTO: Improve Font Rendering in LMDE

Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2010 11:38 am
by wilbert-vanbakel
Your script is appreciated, Ikey.

I can't help but wonder (since originally Linux Mint is a derivative of Ubuntu) how likely it is that Mint would adopt the fontconfig files from Ubuntu.
I replaced the /etc/fonts and the /usr/share/fonts folders by the ones available on Ubuntu 10.10 and the result is excellent.
Does Mint have a policy in this regard?

Re: HOWTO: Improve Font Rendering in LMDE

Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2010 2:54 pm
by craig10x
If doing that gives you the ubuntu quality in the font rendering then hopefully, Clem will read this and implement it into LMDE :wink:

That's the way it should look (out of the box) one should not have to configure it on their own...mint is known for the out of box experience....
Ubuntu/Kubuntu has the best font rendering i have ever come across in linux distros...and the reason why the regular mint gnome and kde look great is because they are based on ubuntu...With direct debian, it needs to be added in...and that should be done by the mint developers rather then the users...

Re: HOWTO: Improve Font Rendering in LMDE

Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 1:04 am
by mfdemicco
After spending some time using Kubuntu, the font rendering is a bit better than what I could get with LMDE. Now, I've made it just as good by installing a patched libcairo2 from http://download.tuxfamily.org/skinny/libcairo2-patched/ and followed these instructions to copy over missing font configuration files from my Kubuntu install to LMDE:
To avoid "color fringing" (AKA "rainbow blur"), you also have to enable LCD filtering. One way is to install Ubuntu's fontconfig-config package, which puts the needed settings in /etc/fonts/conf.d. Alternatively, see if you already have the following files in /etc/fonts/conf.avail:

10-antialias.conf
10-hinting.conf
10-hinting-slight.conf
11-lcd-filter-lcddefault.conf
53-monospace-lcd-filter.conf

If so, you can just create symlinks from the first directory to the other:

ln -s /etc/fonts/conf.avail/10-antialias.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/10-antialias.conf
ln -s /etc/fonts/conf.avail/10-hinting.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/10-hinting.conf
ln -s /etc/fonts/conf.avail/10-hinting-slight.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/10-hinting-slight.conf
ln -s /etc/fonts/conf.avail/11-lcd-filter-lcddefault.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/11-lcd-filter-lcddefault.conf
ln -s /etc/fonts/conf.avail/53-monospace-lcd-filter.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/53-monospace-lcd-filter.conf

If you don't have these files, either unpack the Ubuntu .deb file and copy them over, or create a /etc/fonts/local.conf file which sets "lcdfilter" to "lcddefault". This file is XML, so I'm unable to show it here - see ArchWiki for details.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fon ... n#LCD_Type

For more on the importance of filtering, see Freddie Witherden's Treatise on Font Rasterisation.

https://freddie.witherden.org/pages/font-rasterisation/

Re: HOWTO: Improve Font Rendering in LMDE

Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 10:26 am
by craig10x
after doing that...are you finding that it now matches the rendering of kubuntu?
if it does, i hope Clem reads your post...ubuntu/kubuntu has the best rendering i have ever seen on linux and if he can get it to that quality on LMDE then it would be great...

Re: HOWTO: Improve Font Rendering in LMDE

Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 11:22 am
by mfdemicco
craig10x wrote:after doing that...are you finding that it now matches the rendering of kubuntu?
if it does, i hope Clem reads your post...ubuntu/kubuntu has the best rendering i have ever seen on linux and if he can get it to that quality on LMDE then it would be great...
Yes, it looks the same to me.

Re: HOWTO: Improve Font Rendering in LMDE

Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 8:45 pm
by craig10x
Thanks...ok Clem...make note and check out please :D :wink:

Re: HOWTO: Improve Font Rendering in LMDE

Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2010 3:42 pm
by craig10x
By the way...with clem's announcement of the new package of updates coming out tomorrow for those of you who are using LMDE right now, one item mentioned is improved font rendering....I would love to see some feedback here and how it looks after you install this new package....I'd especially like to know if it looks like the ubuntu/kubuntu/or the mint editions that are based on them...
Thanks :)

Oh yes...would also like to know if ubuntu fonts are included in the package since it updates you to Mint 10 (which has them available of course)...

Re: HOWTO: Improve Font Rendering in LMDE

Posted: Sat Dec 25, 2010 3:52 am
by DavidSTL
Don't know if this will help with the fonts or not but seems compiz is not working by default I ran this in terminal

compiz --replace

compiz then started working and my fonts look a little better I think ?
If you what it to start when you start up you can do this.

Menu-Preferences-Startup Applications and add the command compiz --replace to there works for me.
Here or the fonts I use

FreeSans Medium 10
FreeSans Medium 10
FreeSans Medium 10
FreeSans Bold 10
Monospace 10
8)
Like I said works better for me hope it helps
David STL USA

Re: HOWTO: Improve Font Rendering in LMDE

Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 1:14 pm
by torturedutopian
Hey guys !

I just switched from Kubuntu to LMDE 64. It works pretty well, I have something strange with Mozilla's apps.

In both Firefox & Thunderbird, fonts (menus & interface fonts) are too big / not the right fonts compared to what I set in the Gnome settings. Anti-aliasing seems less good than in Gnome apps.

Also, the most annoying is that Firefox litterally crawls. For instance, when zooming in Google Maps, most of the CPU is used and the animation is very jerky.

(I installed the nvidia proprietary drivers, works perfectly with compiz. The issue was the same before installing those :)

Any idea ?!
Cheers !

Re: HOWTO: Improve Font Rendering in LMDE

Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 2:20 pm
by rivenathos
The Ubuntu fonts are what your issue may be.

In Appearance Preferences > Fonts, change the Application font from Ubuntu 11 to Sans 10. You could change Ubuntu 11 to Ubuntu 10 if you like those fonts. Then, Firefox will have more normal-sized fonts.

That worked on my end.