Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs@math.uh.edu> writes: > I'm finding that my RH8 machines have a peculiar issue with font > antialiasing. In previous releases, vertical font elements were > always rendered sharply, while antialiasing was used to smooth out > curves and diagonals. But in RH8, antialiasing is used to position > vertical font elements on the subpixel grid, and this results in > extremely blurry text. On an LCD panel with subpixel-AA turned on, > characters acquire colored shadows. For an example, see: > http://www.math.uh.edu/~tibbs/rh8-poor-fonts.gif It's a matter of preference ... either you distort the weight a huge amount -- text stems _should_ be about 1.5 pixels wide at current resolutions, so you have to go to 1 or 2, which is a big difference -- or you accept some fuzziness on vertical/horizontal stems. (A big problem with distorting the weight this much is that diagonal elements such as the middle line in a 's' may get compressed to nothing) > Can anyone suggest a way to revert to previous behavior? My only > alternative seems to be turning AA off completely. Gnome seems to > have a tool, gnome-font-properties, that shows (under the "details" > panel) four levels of hinting, with "full" being the only one that > doesn't have the bothersome effect. But this tool has no effect on > non-Gnome applications. This suggests that there might be a way to > tweak /etc/fonts.conf somehow, but documentation of that file seems to > be missing. The tool should affect all apps running under GNOME, but you need to restart non GTK+ apps, the setting won't apply to them. To tweak stuff not running under GNOME, you want to edit /etc/X11/Xresources. Regards, Owen _______________________________________________ xfree86-list mailing list xfree86-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xfree86-list IRC: #xfree86 on irc.redhat.com
