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Questions tagged [font-rendering]

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How can I enable font smoothing when I connect to a Windows server with Terminal Services Client?

When I fire up remote desktop on Windows and connect to my server (Windows Server 2008), the fonts look pretty smooth. I just installed Ubuntu 10.10 yesterday and when I use rdesktop to connect the fonts look terrible. I've looked at all the…
Andy E
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How do I enable font anti-aliasing in Wine?

Fonts in some Wine applications (Word 2007 for example) are heavily aliased. How do I turn on anti aliasing for Wine applications?
richzilla
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How do I change the font DPI settings?

I installed Oneiric on a clean system, and found that the font tab is gone from the Appearance settings. This is a problem, because by default the text in Ubuntu is too large. I changed the text from normal to small in the Universal Access settings,…
Bart van Heukelom
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How do I make urxvt render xft fonts?

I wonder whether there's a way to make urxvt render xft fonts: URxvt.font: xft:Droid Sans Mono Slashed:pixelsize=9:Regular URxvt.boldFont: xft:Droid Sans Mono Slashed:pixelsize=9:Bold URxvt.talicFont: xft:Droid Sans Mono…
wishi
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How to fix font rendering (no anti-aliasing) in Unity global menu and search?

Since I've upgraded my system to Ubuntu 11.10, Unity's global menu and search are having font rendering problems (no anti-aliasing, bad font sizes). No problem in sub-menus. The font rendering problems do not appear on a newly created user. Just the…
Golboth
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Ugly font after KDE installation

You all know the nice default font that come with Ubuntu, right? I just wanted to play a little bit with Kubuntu and installed the meta package kubuntu-desktop Everything was fine, however the font is now ugly as hell. Not only on KDE, but also on…
robin
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Why does the "monospace" font look great in Terminal and gedit, and terrible in IntelliJ IDEA?

Why does the "monospace" font look great in Terminal and gedit, and terrible in IntelliJ IDEA? IDEA uses Java's Swing library, and I understand it might be an issue with this. Is there a known fix?
Armand
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Weird font hinting in Firefox 4

I know this a recurrent topic but I just can't find a decent solution--although I found one for Chrome. Just take look at the following screenshots: Chrome 9 Firefox 4 See the slight difference? I can't identify the exact difference but I…
seriousdev
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How to fix the Bold font rendering issue with gnome-terminal

Clearly there is a problem rendering bold fonts in the terminal.The gedit version of Monaco looks much better,and is rendered properly. I have also tried the Monaco font on Gvim,and terminator.They have the same issue(not being rendered properly).…
Mad-scientist
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Colour font installation (emoji) in Maverick Meerkat

I've tried to install this Apple Emoji TTF font but even the Font Viewer doesn't render them correctly. Does anyone have an idea about whether this kind of font is supported in 10.10/Gnome 2.32 ?
Delete
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Anti-aliasing changed after update (or something...)

The anti-aliasing of my system (of GTK?) has gone weird after I did one of two things - do a system update, and install gimp 2.7 beta. See images: Before: After: Before: After: Here's the current rendering comparison between Chromium,…
Mussnoon
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How to change font hinting settings?

Possible Duplicate: How do I change fonts and adjust their size? I'm using a fresh install of Ubuntu 11.10, and I wish to change the font rendering options (medium hinting, enable subpixel rendering). How do I do that? The Appearance icon in the…
Mihai
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Which process reads Xft font settings?

I use the Blackbox window manager and in my ~/.Xresources file I have a number of settings, like Xft.antialias and Xft.hinting, which affects how fonts are rendered. When I login from LightDM theses settings work as I expect but when I login from a…
August Karlstrom
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I can't seem to change the font rendering setting?

Possible Duplicate: How do I change fonts and adjust their size? How do I change it from what seems to be no dithering and ultra-sharp fonts to a more smooth appearence, and from RGB to mono?
Peter_G
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Where have the font settings gone in 11.10/Oneiric Ocelot?

Possible Duplicate: How do I change fonts and adjust their size? Since the shake-up of all the settings screens, how on earth does one edit their font settings? Particularly the rendering/aliasing/hinting options.
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