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gentian Tux's lil' helper
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cach0rr0 Bodhisattva
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Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2012 9:05 am Post subject: |
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-emerge the fonts you want. for example, there's this:
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* media-fonts/ubuntu-font-family
Available versions: 0.71.2 (~)0.71.2-r1 (~)0.80 {{X}}
Homepage: http://font.ubuntu.com/
Description: A set of matching libre/open fonts funded by Canonical
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-make sure 'cairo' is in your global USE, if indeed you want to use cairo
-tick off the fonts you want via 'eselect fontconfig'
-emerging lxappearance aint a bad idea for graphically setting the default font for apps that use its requisite settings
Within the DE itself you should have graphical tools for fiddling with fonts once the above are taken care of. _________________ Lost configuring your system?
dump lspci -n here | see Pappy's guide | Link Stash |
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PaulBredbury Watchman
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Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2012 10:01 am Post subject: |
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See huge fonts thread.
Infinality's rendering is better than Ubuntu's, and more configurable. |
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gentian Tux's lil' helper
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Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2012 10:55 am Post subject: |
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PaulBredbury wrote: | See huge fonts thread.
Infinality's rendering is better than Ubuntu's, and more configurable. |
I wouldn't really like wasting time on fonts atm. I just need something that looks good out of the box. I don't really need just the ubuntu fonts, In fact, I would rather have the droid fonts which are used on Xubuntu by default and they are configured quite awesomely imo. I had a look on Archwiki and it seems that there is some sort of patching required in order for the fonts to have the same effect on other distros?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Font_Configuration#Patched_packages |
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Helmering n00b
Joined: 13 Dec 2011 Posts: 63 Location: Italy
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Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2012 6:46 pm Post subject: |
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Try lcd-filtering overlay. Thats the easy and recommanded gentoo way to apply infinilty. |
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yngwin Retired Dev
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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2012 3:24 am Post subject: |
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I recommend to add the infinality overlay and install the packages in there. Infinality has some good default sets, so it doesn't need much configuration to set up. Tho you can configure it in much detail if you want to. _________________ "Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves." - Abraham Lincoln
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gentian Tux's lil' helper
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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2012 6:00 am Post subject: |
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Helmering wrote: | Try lcd-filtering overlay. Thats the easy and recommanded gentoo way to apply infinilty. |
Could you elaborate a little bit on that please? Is this what I need to do?
http://gitorious.org/lcd-filtering/pages/Install |
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gentian Tux's lil' helper
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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2012 6:06 am Post subject: |
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yngwin wrote: | I recommend to add the infinality overlay and install the packages in there. Infinality has some good default sets, so it doesn't need much configuration to set up. Tho you can configure it in much detail if you want to. |
I tried Infinality in the past and I wasn't very pleased with the results. I simply want to achieve the same results as you get on Xubuntu 11.10.. |
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EatMeerkats Apprentice
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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2012 2:15 pm Post subject: |
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The inifinality overlay includes an Ubuntu-like setting you can select with "source /usr/lib64/ft-settings.sh ubuntu". |
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Helmering n00b
Joined: 13 Dec 2011 Posts: 63 Location: Italy
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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2012 7:00 pm Post subject: |
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gentian wrote: | Helmering wrote: | Try lcd-filtering overlay. Thats the easy and recommanded gentoo way to apply infinilty. |
Could you elaborate a little bit on that please? Is this what I need to do?
http://gitorious.org/lcd-filtering/pages/Install |
Yes, follow the WIKI, change ~x86 to your needs and have a deeper look into the fontconfig and freetype section of the wiki.
P.S: lcd-filtering overlay applies the infinalty patches.
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