Changing hinting of fonts in GDM -- possible ??

Mustard007

Hi !
I try to change the hinting of fonts in the login manager GDM, to look like when i login in Gnome and change Font properties.

It's possible to do that ??

Thanks !

David_Escott · l33t Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 952 Location: Boston, MA

i think the way to do this would be to run the gnome-font-properties as root. Since gdm is run as root it should get its hinting configuration from root/.xft or whatever the appropriate directory is

hast · n00b Joined: 29 Sep 2002 Posts: 9

This worked for me. I just added some stuff to
/etc/X11/xdm/Xresources
Xft.antialias: 1
Xft.dpi: 100.000000
Xft.hinting: 0
Xft.hintstyle: hintnone
Xft.rgba: none

razamatan · Apprentice Joined: 28 Feb 2003 Posts: 160

if you're using the new fontconfig way... you can create a .font.conf file under /var/lib/gdm (the user gdm's home directory) to specify hinting... i use bci myself, but the sans fonts that most gdm themes use look horrible w/ bci... so i turn it of in the /var/lib/gdm/.fonts.conf file...

honestly, you can do alot w/ gdm thru that directory!
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ikshaar · Posted: Thu May 15, 2003 2:47 pm Post subject:

Could you give an example on how to do that, like posting your .fonts.conf file ? I have no clue what to put into that file to make the gdm font looks a little bit better... thanks.
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iwasbiggs · Apprentice Joined: 17 Jan 2003 Posts: 203

ikshaar · Posted: Thu May 15, 2003 8:30 pm Post subject:

Well, my /etc/fonts.conf file is a 10k file and I don't know what to change in it ....
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iwasbiggs · Apprentice Joined: 17 Jan 2003 Posts: 203

man fontconfig
scroll to the bottom.
Also, my home .font.config is a lot smaller.
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ikshaar · Posted: Thu May 15, 2003 9:27 pm Post subject:

OK, I will change my question, if anybody know how to change the font of the gdm, could you please post the relevant part of font.conf ?

Thank you.
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razamatan · Apprentice Joined: 28 Feb 2003 Posts: 160

my .font.conf to fix the sans font w/ most gdm themes... place in /var/lib/gdm

ikshaar · Posted: Fri May 16, 2003 2:49 pm Post subject:

Thx razamatan, I will play with that.
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iwasbiggs · Apprentice Joined: 17 Jan 2003 Posts: 203

Updating fontconfig to version 2.2.0-r2
seemed to fix some stuff.
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