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  Tutorial: Linux X Windows XFree86 Font Deuglification Mini HOWTO Tutorial

This HOWTO, maintained by Hal Burgiss, tells how to improve ugly and unreadable X Window fonts. It includes various tips for improving font handling for XFree86, including sections on fonts servers, TrueType fonts, Netscape, and related topics.

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Linux X Windows XFree86 Font Deuglification Mini HOWTO

One of the most annoying sets of problems I have had to deal with is the
abysmal default fonts and font settings of X (I'm talking specifically about
[http://www.xfree.org] XFree86, other versions of X may be better.) Many
programs use fixed width default fonts when a variable width font would be
more appropriate.

Other programs use fonts that are ridiculously tiny and unreadable. The fonts that are bundled with XFree86 are barely adequate for the job. It does come with a halfway decent courier font, but its Times and Helvetica fonts are simple bitmap fonts that pixelize when they are scaled.

This HOWTO attempts to show how to adjust various font settings, install new fonts, and do other things that will greatly improve the appearance and readability of fonts on the X Window Desktop. This is done by adjusting the
FontPath in the XF86Config file, by adding switches to X server command line
in startx or xdm (and variants), by adding new fonts, by installing a
TrueType font server and fonts, and by using a feature in the K Desktop
Environment 1.1 that automagically adjusts font settings in many
applications, including non-KDE apps to set their fonts and colors to match
KDE's style settings.


 

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