Comments on: Beautiful Font Hinting in Ubuntu 8.10 and 9.04

By: YChao

YChao — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:56:12 +0000

Thanks a lot for the info. Just that it stops working after u/g to 9.10. Some how it’s always set to lcddefault when checked with “xrdb -query”. Would be great if this can be fixed.

By: Josh S.

Josh S. — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 04:13:16 +0000

Thanks for your help, Martin. Your files worked for me with Ubuntu 9.04, but they don’t work in Ubuntu 9.10. I changed “lcdlegacy” to “lcdnone” in both files in Ubuntu 9.10, and now the font rendering seems to look like it did in Ubuntu 9.04 after I used your files.

By: Martin Ankerl

Martin Ankerl — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:21:16 +0000

Hi John, to copy the code to the clipboard click on “copy to clipboard”
Or, if this does not work, click “view plain” and copy the content from the popup window.

By: John

John — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:09:14 +0000

Thank you so much Martin for the past couple of days I have been straining my eyes trying to figure out how to fix my font. Everything was red green and blue. Ubuntu must have change something, or maybe it was my new Nvidia GTX 285 card. I’ve never had a problem like this before, fonts have always been super crisp on Ubuntu. Thanks a bunch.

Oh by the way I had a little trouble copying the code you had in this article. I had to go back and delete all the line numbers down the left side. You might want to change that especially if you post really long code on your site. It could be problematic in cases like that.

By: Paladin

Paladin — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:22:44 +0000

Help me guys, it doesn’t work on my Ubuntu 9.04

By: 6205

6205 — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:08:09 +0000

Thank you very much.. It has helped me a lot in Ubuntu 9.04

By: Michael Alan Miller » Font of some wisdom

Michael Alan Miller » Font of some wisdom — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:04:08 +0000

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By: unbuntufied

unbuntufied — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:21:12 +0000

another way to fix how the font looks is to calibrate lcd monitor. goto http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/ to calibrate and the fonts will look better after

By: uberl33t

uberl33t — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 06:27:29 +0000

Argh, the system tried to interpret the XML tags… Here’s an example without the arrows

match target=”font”
edit name=”antialias” mode=”assign”
bool true /bool
/edit
/match
match target=”font”
edit name=”hinting” mode=”assign”
bool true /bool
/edit
/match

By: uberl33t

uberl33t — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:34:09 +0000

By the way, KDE doesn’t like the above .fonts.conf file format, it wants all the edit-tags separately between their own match-tags, like this:

true

and so on.

I don’t know why KDE is nitpicking on this. The example file works if you don’t touch anything, but if you experiment with KDE Control Center font settings, the file gets overwritten if it isn’t already in the correct format. So, could you please ‘fix’ the example .fonts.conf file so it works with KDE without trouble?