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gnome-settings-daemon package

  1. Bug #1506704
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 1506704

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Silvio Bierman (sbierman) wrote :

I also experience strange font rendering after reinstalling 15.10. I have already been on the development version for months and until yesterday everything looked fine. Yesterday I did a download of the 15.10 release and reinstalled. Everything worked out of the box, even my installed packages, EXCEPT msttcorefonts. I had to explicitly install the ttf-mscorefonts-installer to get fonts like Arial, Courier and Verdana.

But all fonts (not only the ms-ones) are rendered very weird in most if not all places. The look very thin (most fonts are probably one pixels wide) and I really have to go to bold versions to see thicker fonts. Even then, the fonts look garbled.

Changing antialiasing and/or hinting settings has very little influence, if any.

It brings back nightmares of the ugly font rendering I am used to in the Windows I have running in a VirtualBox.