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dspahn
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 14, 2018 5:13 am    Post subject: [Solved] crappy looking fonts in kde... Reply with quote

What can I do to improve the appearance of my fonts in KDE? Is there a smoothing option or should I install additioinal fonts? The screen is running one of those hybrid Nvidia-intel chipsets at HD native resolution. any ideas? it looks i need to fix some font scaling- dont think ts smoothing.
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 14, 2018 6:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Can you post a picture here ?

Some additional fonts may help here !
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 14, 2018 10:57 am    Post subject: not sure which way to go to solve... thanks for the help! Reply with quote

Image here:

https://ibb.co/dSiyVL
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 14, 2018 1:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I use plasma (KDE) and mine look like this.

https://ibb.co/eTwSPf

The fonts I'm using is Noto Sans rendered with infinality


https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Fontconfig
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 19, 2018 4:16 am    Post subject: Got it... Reply with quote

Thanks- that wasa immensely helpful and I am very happy with the result! Easy to do too!
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