Subj : Re: big problem with text sharpness
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Sybren Stuvel
Date : Fri Jun 18 2004 09:52 am

Victor Nazarov enlightened us with:
> I've experieneced same problems... If you are using Gnome2, in
> gnome-font-properties dialog, go to Details and set Smoothing to None
> and Hinting to Full. This gives me satisfactory results.

Me too. To the OP: are you sure your X server has XFT support built in?

Sybren
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