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On Wednesday 09 May 2007, Mick wrote: |
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> Hi All, |
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> Just updated my laptop and noticed that freetype-2.3.3 was installed. |
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> Restarted xorg and the font size and legibility of X apps changed for the |
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> worse. The fonts are now considerably smaller, anti-aliasing makes them |
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> look really blurred, fixed-width font in Kmail is shown grey(!), etc. |
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> Am I the only one that had this unwelcome (in my case) change? I tried |
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> removing anti-aliasing for fonts 06-12ps, but then they looked rather |
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> jagged and extremely wiry (too thin). I'd rather didn't change everything |
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> to bold, but fear that in five minutes I am going to get a migraine due to |
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> eye strain! :) |
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> Is this the way it is supposed to look? |
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They look ok to me... Maybe your resolution changed somehow (very unlikely...) |
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I experienced similar problems with a 15 inch monitor that got a resolution |
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bigger than what it could handle... But your screenshot is 1024x768 so unless |
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you scaled it down, that would be my guess... |
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Maybe someone else has another idea? |
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> PS. In reality it looks more blurred that the attached picture, probably |
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> because of the low quality of the monitor. |
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