Ugly Font Issue

[mfdemicco]

Is there any solution to the poor font rendering? I want my fonts to look like Mint based Ubuntu's.

The solution appears to be a patched version of libcairo2. No amount of tweaking worked satisfactorily for me.

[kwevej]

http://martin.ankerl.com/2009/01/22/bea ... buntu-810/

[mfdemicco]

I fixed it! I copied the .fonts.conf file (which is an XML file) from my aptosid (was sidux) home folder to my LMDE home folder. I don't know if the fonts render exactly like Ubuntu's, but it looks 1000% better. Contents of the file are as follows:

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<?xml version='1.0'?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'fonts.dtd'>
<fontconfig>
 <match target="font">
  <edit mode="assign" name="rgba">
   <const>rgb</const>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font">
  <edit mode="assign" name="hinting">
   <bool>true</bool>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font">
  <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle">
   <const>hintslight</const>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <dir>~/.fonts</dir>
 <match target="font">
  <edit mode="assign" name="antialias">
   <bool>true</bool>
  </edit>
 </match>
</fontconfig>

[randomizer]

http://martin.ankerl.com/2009/01/22/bea ... buntu-810/

I've noticed that lcdfilter option in many places but I've never seen it actually have any impact whatsoever on any fonts anywhere in the system. Perhaps it is deprecated?

[burtb08]

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 sudo dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config

This worked for me.

[mfdemicco]

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 sudo dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config

This worked for me.

I tried that several times but it didn't work for me.

[burtb08]

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 sudo dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config

This worked for me.

I tried that several times but it didn't work for me.

I went with Autohinter, Always, and No.