Re: How can I disable anti-aliasing of screen fonts in sarge?
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c> Now my question is how can I disable this anti-aliasing? Do I need to
c> remove the fontconfig package? At this point I'm considering
c> reinstalling gnome, reconfiguring it w/o anti-aliasing and then
removing
c> it unless s/o could come up w/ a more sensible solution.
1) gnome-font-properties -> Font Rendering -> Monochrome
2) environment variable GDK_USE_XFT=0
serge@matveev spb ru Serge Matveev & ...
ICQ 3575357
Thank you gentlemen, and sorry about the delay..
Serge, basically you are suggesting I reinstall gnome so I can access its
font config GUI..?
I have been confronted w/ this kind of dilemma in the past on machines
where
gnome was installed. I normally use window maker and I remember at least
one occasion where I started gnome to show a friend something and did so
under my regular uid. Part of the "demo" was switching to different gnome
themes and some used tiny little fonts for the widgets. We had a couple of
beers and I forgot all about it...
The next day I logged back into wmaker and lo and behold mozilla, gimp,
etc.. all came up w/ tiny almost unreadable menu fonts. It lost maybe an
hour
figuring out what could have happened.
But because I could start gnome on this system once I realized what had
happened it was quite easy to reset the widgets' fonts to something
sensible.
So what I am looking for is some solution to change GTK or gnome (?) widget
fonts back to "aliased" - and while I'm at it get rid of the
bitstream/Vera fonts
because they look rather terrible at the smaller pointsizes that I
normally use.
Note that the anti-aliasing not only affects widget fonts but also page
contents
and is totally unsuitable on this laptop's LCD. Looks like someone has
taken a
p*ss all over the web pages.. :-)
Naturally I don't mind editing the conf files. If only I could find
them. I don't even
know if they are text files. I guess I'll have to refine my grepping a
bit and see
if I can come up with a limited set of matching files.
But generally speaking since GTK-based apps are supposed to be portable to
machines that do not run the gnome desktop I'm a bit surprised that there
does not seem to be a better way. Having so little experience w/ Debian I
guess the problem is that when I removed the gnome desktop I should have
specified that I also wanted to remove its config files?
Cheers,
Chris.
PS. And thanks to Alvin for the links. They're more about setting up
anti-aliasing
and prettyfying your fonts in general. But I read (or re-read them)
carefully,
thinking that maybe I could just "reverse" the recommendations so-to-speak
and get back to "normal". But so far no luck.
Proved useful reading though, insofar as these docs give you a better
idea of what goes on under the covers.
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