HOWTO: Improve Font Rendering in LMDE
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Re: HOWTO: Improve Font Rendering in LMDE
uhm I'm not sure if and how that can be related but since I ran this script I cannot open the appearance settings tool anymore. Trying to do so only opens a blank window with invisible (but existing) borders that - judging how long I dragged it to one side - seems to have unlimited width
Re: HOWTO: Improve Font Rendering in LMDE
after running the script:
amsn didn't render contact list and the menu
conky wouldn't run
gnome-appearance-properties wouldn't run
got this fixed by doing: gconftool-2 --unset "/desktop/gnome/font_rendering/dpi"
amsn didn't render contact list and the menu
conky wouldn't run
gnome-appearance-properties wouldn't run
got this fixed by doing: gconftool-2 --unset "/desktop/gnome/font_rendering/dpi"
Re: HOWTO: Improve Font Rendering in LMDE
I copied and pasted the .sh script file and tried to saved it to File System but was informed that I did not have permission. So I went to the terminal and did a sudo -s and logged in as root. Found I still couldn't save the file.
What am I doing wrong, please?
And what should I change in the .sgh script to take into account the error people were experiencing?
Regards from New Zealand on a very windy Tueasday evening.
What am I doing wrong, please?
And what should I change in the .sgh script to take into account the error people were experiencing?
Regards from New Zealand on a very windy Tueasday evening.
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Re: HOWTO: Improve Font Rendering in LMDE
Thanks Ikey. Everything is purty again.
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Re: HOWTO: Improve Font Rendering in LMDE
Wonderful! Thanks Ikey! My eyes were going a bit cross-eyed trying to read LMDE's "as installed" font rendering. I'll raise a glass to ya' as soon as I get the chance.
You're quite popular on Google these days you know.
You're quite popular on Google these days you know.
"Humph. Choice, it is the quintessential Linux delusion, simultaneously the source of it's greatest strength, and it's greatest weakness." (All apologies to The Architect)
Re: HOWTO: Improve Font Rendering in LMDE
And now look where you are today although I have to believe that the freak part hasn't gone entirely missing. After all, you are a developer.ikey wrote:No probs mate Yeah I seen Google seems to know me a lot now, makes you think back I guess.
Go back nearly two years and nobody knew who I was, just a random guy on IRC, went by the name
"jfreak" back then..
Cheers and all that,
A prehistoric geek
"Humph. Choice, it is the quintessential Linux delusion, simultaneously the source of it's greatest strength, and it's greatest weakness." (All apologies to The Architect)
Re: HOWTO: Improve Font Rendering in LMDE
Ikey, you're officially my newest hero for posting this fix. Now these old eyes don't have to strain so much.
Re: HOWTO: Improve Font Rendering in LMDE
@Ikey
I believe the setting of the serif and sans serif fonts in the set_firefox_fonts function are reversed. It should look like the following code:
I believe the setting of the serif and sans serif fonts in the set_firefox_fonts function are reversed. It should look like the following code:
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function set_firefox_fonts()
{
# warning, does not account for previous font entries.
echo "Setting default Firefox fonts.."
FFFILE="`get_firefox_profile_dir`/prefs.js"
echo "user_pref(\"font.name.monospace.x-western\", \"DejaVu Sans Mono\");" >> $FFFILE
echo "user_pref(\"font.name.sans-serif.x-western\", \"DejaVu Sans\");" >> $FFFILE
echo "user_pref(\"font.name.serif.x-western\", \"DejaVu Serif\");" >> $FFFILE
echo "user_pref(\"font.size.fixed.x-western\", 14);" >> $FFFILE
echo "user_pref(\"font.size.variable.x-western\", 14);" >> $FFFILE
}
Re: HOWTO: Improve Font Rendering in LMDE
@Ikey
Thank you for response and the changes you made to the script.
Just one thought though, with the serif/sans serif font inversion, web pages that once looked good before applying the inversion, may look less appealing after the inversion. That is, a well designed web page that uses the generic serif and sans serif font type rather than coding specific font types may well look like the type of web page that you were trying to improve.
Thank you for response and the changes you made to the script.
Just one thought though, with the serif/sans serif font inversion, web pages that once looked good before applying the inversion, may look less appealing after the inversion. That is, a well designed web page that uses the generic serif and sans serif font type rather than coding specific font types may well look like the type of web page that you were trying to improve.
Re: HOWTO: Improve Font Rendering in LMDE
gconftool-2 --unset "/desktop/gnome/font_rendering/dpi" <- should there b a quotation mark at the end?ikey wrote: If you have errors as described below, run this command:Code: Select all
gconftool-2 --unset "/desktop/gnome/font_rendering/dpi
if i'm incorrect feel free to delete this post,
Re: HOWTO: Improve Font Rendering in LMDE
I have the appearance properties bug, but cannot fix it:
What do I do?
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michael@lmde-laptop ~ $ gconftool-2 --unset "/desktop/gnome/font_rendering/dpi
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Re: HOWTO: Improve Font Rendering in LMDE
ikey wrote:Heya, ok so that file you can save to your home directory. Then follow the instructions on my first posttenfoot wrote:I copied and pasted the .sh script file and tried to saved it to File System but was informed that I did not have permission. So I went to the terminal and did a sudo -s and logged in as root. Found I still couldn't save the file.
What am I doing wrong, please?
And what should I change in the .sgh script to take into account the error people were experiencing?
Regards from New Zealand on a very windy Tueasday evening.
Ha! success is mine Thank you.
Re: HOWTO: Improve Font Rendering in LMDE
Not strictly for this thread, but very much font-related. Would this be the correct procedure for installing the "Microsoft fonts" package with LMDE?
$ sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
Add contrib to last three lines:
deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian main upstream import
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free contrib
deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free contrib
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing main non-free contrib
Save /etc/apt/sources.list, then:
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts
After this operation, 1,966kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
$ sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
Add contrib to last three lines:
deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian main upstream import
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free contrib
deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free contrib
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing main non-free contrib
Save /etc/apt/sources.list, then:
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts
After this operation, 1,966kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
Last edited by libssd on Wed Sep 22, 2010 4:50 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Re: HOWTO: Improve Font Rendering in LMDE
Looks like you already have contrib in "ftp.debian.org" and "security.debian.org" no need to have the contrib entries twice. Also there is no such thing as contrib for the multimedia repo. The package you are looking to install is ttf-mscorefonts-installer.libssd wrote:Not strictly for this thread, but very much font-related. Would this be the correct procedure for installing the "Microsoft fonts" package with LMDE?
$ sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
Add contrib to last three lines:
deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian main upstream import
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free contrib
deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free contrib
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing main non-free contrib
Save /etc/apt/sources.list, then:
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts
After this operation, 1,966kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
Other than that you've got the right idea.
Re: HOWTO: Improve Font Rendering in LMDE
Beautiful or at least very satisfying fonts here: LCD 1440x900@60hz
Appearance -> fonts -> details -> lcd subpixel "slight" /Resolution 96dpi. That it. No scripts, no screwing.
hth
anamnesis
Appearance -> fonts -> details -> lcd subpixel "slight" /Resolution 96dpi. That it. No scripts, no screwing.
hth
anamnesis
Re: HOWTO: Improve Font Rendering in LMDE
Tja, I'm confused, too. I installed the os on the 18. September, entered the appearance office as usual, did the changes I always do in Debian, and voila: nice fontsikey wrote: If it was a simple case of "That it. No scripts, no screwing." then I wouldn't have written it
would I?
Greets
anamnesis