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Bad font anti-aliasing in Ubuntu

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Mar 15, 202637348 views
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Problem

I'm switching from Fedora 8 to Ubuntu 9.04, and I can't seem to get it to get a good font anti-aliasing to work. It seems that Ubuntu's fontconfig tries to keep characters in integral pixel widths. This makes text more difficult to read, when 1 pixel is too thin and 2 pixels is too thick. Check the…

Error Output

~% xrdb -query | grep Xft
Xft.antialias:  1
Xft.dpi:        96
Xft.hinting:    1
Xft.hintstyle:  hintfull
Xft.rgba:       none

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Fix for: Bad font anti-aliasing in Ubuntu

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There is an old trick to make fonts smoother on Ubuntu (and pretty much every distro running Gnome): Open up .fonts.conf under your home directory ( ) and paste this in: Before: After:

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