Em Quarta 05 Julho 2006 13:07, Tim escreveu: > On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 09:28 -0300, Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote: > > This monitor is an LCD one, right? Did you configure X to use > > sub-pixel font rendering? Text doesn't look nice in LCD monitors > > without this. > > Just to be picky, that's not necessarily the case. LCDs can show fonts > quite nicely without it. But if you're using a system that draws fonts > in an ugly manner without it (e.g. FC3, FC4, haven't tested FC5), yes > it's the case. It seems to be the design of the fonts used by Fedora, > as well as the font rendering system. Other things can draw very neat > looking fonts that only occupy one pixel width. Yes, some systems display fonts better than others without sub-pixel rendering. However, I'm yet to see a system, Linux or not, in which text will not look nicer on LCDs after setting up sub-pixel rendering. When it's well configured, the difference is huge, specially on small fonts. []'s Marcelo
