Mar 10, 2010

Enable Smooth fonts on Ubuntu Linux

Ubuntu Linux has an option for font smoothing that isn’t turned on by default for some strange reason. This makes fonts significantly smoother, enough to be very noticable.

To enable this option, you need to edit the .fonts.conf file in your home directory. To create and open the file, run this command and paste in the xml data below it.

gedit ~/.fonts.conf

Paste in this text:






true


You’ll have to log out and back in to see the difference.

Here’s an image of the before:

And here’s an image of the after:

Definitely looks smoother, and is much more readable on my laptop screen.

purpose is just sharing this article was found on:
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/ubuntu/enable-smooth-fonts-on-ubuntu-linux/

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