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On 06/06/13 22:58, Simon Waters wrote: > On 06/06/13 20:31, bad apple wrote: >> http://www.webupd8.org/2013/06/better-font-rendering-in-linux-with.html >> >> I could not have been more wrong - the results are immediate and like >> night and day compared to the defaults. I haven't even bothered tweaking >> it yet, just installed it and set it to Infinality/Infinality (which is >> a pre-set based exactly on the dev's own preferred setup) and it's >> amazing. > Hmm, it seems to have changed my default system font (within GNOME at > least) to something with ugly serifs. > > I've reset that in terminal and icedove, but can't immediately see how > to set it right (should the ugly critter turn up elsewhere - I recognize > it is the same one something else defaults to (possibly Macs?)). > > Also tweaked my anti-aliasing to greyscale (perhaps I had tweaked this > stuff before), but that may be a personal choice thing or an LCD thing. > > Seems also to have sorted a strange fuzziness issue with the right hand > side of the screen which I hadn't noticed till I read your post and > compared their before and after pictures and noted that something odd > happened on the right hand side of my screen. > > Does seem to have sorted the kerning issue in Debian, but it all looks > fairly different due to the changes of font. > > Suppose the question to ask is why is it still a patch? > > Simon > Simon, which version of Debian are you using? I'm guessing it must be Jessie or Sid. Also, did you install infinality via the suggested Ubuntu repo, converted to a .list? Just curious, as I just used that method to try and install it on a Debian Wheezy box only to have it fail on dependencies: libfreetype6 : Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14) but 2.13-38 is to be installed It did install fine on my Sid laptop which has a suitable libc6 revision. Annoyingly I can't check out the github source to build it myself easily as they've misconfigured their github setup so that even anonymous r/o checkout requires a login, and I can't be bothered making up another one. If anyone else fancies running: git clone https://github.com/chenxiaolong/Debian-Packages.git And then emailing me a tarball of the result it would be appreciated. You'll need a valid github account, which I'm sure loads of you have. Cheers -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq