On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 10:42:08AM +1100, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > To me, the text in Gedit is fuzzy and hurts my eyes. In addition, the > white text is less white in Gedit than in Nedit, despite the white being > defined in the Gedit style as "#ffffff". Experimenting with larger font > sizes suggests that this is due to anti-aliasing. Anti-aliasing is also > causing the fuzziness. If you load that image in the Gimp and zoom to > 200%, the problem is obvious, Nedit has sharp font outlines and Gedit's > are fuzzy. > > I know its possible to turn off anti-aliasing system wide, but I don't > think that is a solution. > > This leads to the question, is there any such thing as a truetype font > for which the TTF font renderer will not try to anti-alias the text?
This looks interesting http://mandrivausers.org/index.php?/topic/977-tired-of-antialiased-fonts-in-gnome-2-0-x/ don't know if it works. But maybe you just wrap gedit in a bash script. This thread http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/fontconfig/2004-November/001048.html also looks promising. Cheers, John -- John Blog http://www.inodes.org LCA2010 http://www.lca2010.org.nz _______________________________________________ coders mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/coders
