It is not a bug at all. Antialiased white text on black looks bad. Period. Use a bitmap font. Fontconfig can also use bitmap fonts. Can you choose 'Fixed' in the font selection dialog in Gnome?
If not, apt-get install xfonts-base xfonts-base-transcoded and dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig where you have to enabled bitmap fonts. I also sent my fontconfig configuration in a previous email, where I disabled antialiasing for font sizes between 7 and 15 pixels. Ionut On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 01:44:24PM +0200, A Mennucc wrote: > Alex Grigorovich wrote: > > >On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 13:53 +0200, A Mennucc wrote: > > > > > >>one problem is that the rendering of the fonts when using Mutt, or any > >>other application > >>that draws white chars over black background, is much worse > >> > >> > > > >Try disabling font autoaliasing (Applications->Desktop > >Preferences->Font->monochrome under gnome). > > > > > > > this fixes the problem in the gnome terminal showing mutt, (or, "aptitude") > but it skrews the rendering in all other cases, so I am unwilling to do that > > >I believe you can disable it for specific font/size combinations > >applying some fontconfig magic, but I've never actually worked out how. > > I may look for that , too > > ----- > > I have played with different fonts : > monospace is actually the best > courier is even worse. > > I also played with different settings of hinting and of antialiasing: > > hinting = full , antialiasing = grayscale , font = courier 10 pt > gives the worst case : in this case, some parts of some letters > are so dark that they are almost invisible > > see attachment > > I really think that this is a bug ... > what package should I report against? > > thax > > a. -- *************** * Ionuţ Georgescu * Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme * Noethnitzer Str. 38, D-01187 Dresden * Phone: +49 (351) 871-2209 * Fax: +49 (351) 871-1999
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