CentOS - Aug 2009 - my fonts look horrible (centos5.3/xfce)

Hi all,

I can't seem to get my fonts to look decent under CentOS.  I was able to 
make them look pretty good under Ubuntu, but for the life of me I can't 
make them look decent on CentOS.

Screenshots:
http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/8563/ss1rzo.jpg
http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/7655/ss2ocf.jpg
http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/6040/ss3j.jpg
http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/466/uiprefs.jpg


Any advice is appreciated because this sucks :)

Ryan

On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:01:47 -0400
Ryan Pugatch <rpug at tripadvisor.com> wrote:
> I can't seem to get my fonts to look decent under CentOS.  I was
> able to make them look pretty good under Ubuntu, but for the life
> of me I can't make them look decent on CentOS.
There are 2 sites that have full details:

Using Sharp Fonts On A GNOME Desktop:
http://www.howtoforge.com/sharp_fonts_gnome
It's not Xfce, but it may be enough to get you started.

and

Optimal Use of Fonts on Linux
http://avi.alkalay.net/linux/docs/font-howto/Font.html
It's much more general

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Ryan Pugatch wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I can't seem to get my fonts to look decent under CentOS.  I was able
to
> make them look pretty good under Ubuntu, but for the life of me I can't
> make them look decent on CentOS.
> 
> Screenshots:
> http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/8563/ss1rzo.jpg
> http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/7655/ss2ocf.jpg
> http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/6040/ss3j.jpg
> http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/466/uiprefs.jpg
> 
> 
> Any advice is appreciated because this sucks :)
> 
> Ryan
Get the freetype source RPM and recompile it with the bytecode interpreter
enabled.


Glenn

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Ryan Pugatch<rpug at tripadvisor.com>
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I can't seem to get my fonts to look decent under CentOS. ?I was able
to
> make them look pretty good under Ubuntu, but for the life of me I can't
> make them look decent on CentOS.
>
> Screenshots:
> http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/8563/ss1rzo.jpg
> http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/7655/ss2ocf.jpg
> http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/6040/ss3j.jpg
> http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/466/uiprefs.jpg
>
>
> Any advice is appreciated because this sucks :)
>
> Ryan
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>
rpm -ivh http://repo.lastdot.org/tmp/msttcorefonts-2.0-1.noarch.rpm
service xfs restart
Restart your application..
Is it working now?

> Thanks for the links.? I have already basically done everything
> there and have the ms fonts.? Unfortunately they look pretty bad..
I have not followed the thread carefully, but I've seen in a couple of 
screenshots that bitmaps fonts might have been used. Have you tried this?

"ln -s /etc/fonts/conf.avail/70-no-bitmaps.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps"


Cheers,
R-C



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