Subj : Re: big problem with text sharpness
To   : comp.os.linux
From : berger
Date : Fri Jun 18 2004 11:33 am

Sybren Stuvel <sybrenUSE@YOURthirdtower.imagination.com> wrote in message news:<slrncd54cq.9fl.sybrenUSE@sybren.thirdtower.com>...
> 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?

Pretty sure, since its a recent distribution and I can access fonts in
my ~/.fonts directory. How can I find out for sure?

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