At 3:38 PM -0800 12/12/06, John Wendel wrote: >I installed FC6 with KDE on my test box with a 17 inch 1024 x 768 crt, >Nvidia 5200 using the NV driver - looks beautiful! > >I installed FC6 with Gnome on my laptop with a 15 inch 1280 x 800 LCD, >Intel 915 video - also looks very nice (much nicer than the XP I >dumped from the box)! > >I installed FC6 with KDE on my daily use desktop (the one I really >care about) with a Princeton 19 inch 1280 x 1024 LCD, Nvidia 6200, and >it looks horrible! I tried the NV and Nvidia drivers, no difference. ... There have been other posts about KDE and bad-looking fonts. Here's one: At 9:02 AM +0800 10/27/06, Ed Greshko wrote: >Tim wrote: >> Paul Smith: >>>> I have just upgraded from FC5 to FC6, but the fonts do not look so >>>> nice as before. I have the anti-aliasing on and I am using KDE. >> >> >> Ed Greshko: >>> Try the following.... >>> >>> 1. Disable anti-aliasing. >>> 2. Logout and use Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to restart X server. >>> 3. Login and enable anti-aliasing. >>> 4. Logout and use Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to restart X server. >>> 5. Login and see if your fonts are improved. >> >> Good grief! If that sort of thing is necessary, and required, it makes >> you wonder if someone in Fedora has being taking hints from Microsoft. > >FWIW, I did bugzilla it and it has been fixed but just didn't make it into >the release. Also, I looked back at my report and it really was only >necessary to: > >1. Login as KDE user. >2. Go to the KDE "Control Center" --> "Fonts" menu >3. Deselect Anti-Aliasing then hit "apply" >4. Select Anti-Aliasing then hit "apply" >5. Logout/Login > >Just a bit easier..... -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' The Great Writ <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' is no more. <http://www.georgeanelson.com/> -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
