Fonts Mint/Debian

[Andy Mack]

Tricky one this, I'm hoping that someone who uses both Mint and Lenny Gnome can help.

I'm trying to find out why fonts in Mint look nice and strong and why Debian Lenny's look weak. I have exactly the same font settings in both, I have gtk-qt installed in debian to help but still not right.

Firefox fonts are different too even though I copied my .mozilla folder from mint to debian.
I'm asking in the debian forums too.

Thanks
Andy

[nick]

Hi

I use Debian (KDE)

try, as Root

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dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config

First screen, I have "autohinter"
Second screen - subpixel rendering for screen: "automatic"
Third screen - Enable bitmapped fonts by default? "NO"

Then reboot - hope that helps,

Nick

[Andy Mack]

Thanks.

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dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-configFirst screen, I have "autohinter"
Second screen - subpixel rendering for screen: "automatic"
Third screen - Enable bitmapped fonts by default? "NO"

Had previously tried that with no difference.

No compiz installed, cant change refresh rate, locked at 50hz while I use 60hz on mint.
I'll look into the truetype.

I read in some review that Mint uses Fedora fonts or something like that. Wonder if that could be the difference.