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Re: How to get Anti aliasing fonts in Gnome?



Hello.

Jaap Haitsma:

> 1. debian-lt.png shows a webpage in debian
> 2. fedora-lt.png shows the same webpage
> in fedora (way better font rendering)
> 3. fedora-slashdot.png shows slashdot on fedora. As you
> can see the font rendering even on that site really rocks.
> 
> Do you see the difference now??
> 
> It should be possible to get it like this in Debian as well.
> My only problem is how?
> Changing the font rendering in gnome-font-properties does not help.

I always start a new setup by following "A very short guide to setting
up fonts for X in Debian"[1], then `apt-get install mozilla-xft` and
the results on my Sid boxen seem to resemble your Fedora.

[1] http://egads.ertius.org/~rob/font_guide.txt

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