On 02/06/2011 02:15 PM, Jorge Fábregas wrote: > 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. -- -- Steve -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
