[SOLVED] Help trouble with fonts...

bangnagr · 04-09-2015, 11:53 AM

Hi All

I spent a whole day installing and configuring arch linux with gnome3. I was not happy with font rendering, so after search in google, i came across this tutorial - Get High Quality Font Rendering in Linux with Infinality. I thought everything will be super fine, but after reboot, i have trouble with fonts display. Every time i move mouse, fonts start disappearing/re-appearing/dancing etc. Often they even wont display at all. Screen-shots attached.

I want to undo what i did, but not sure how to do it. I tried to uninstall packages that i had installed, still the problem persists.

How do i reset my fonts to previous stage.

Thanks.

rtmistler · 04-09-2015, 12:01 PM

Two things you ought to consider (1) look at that script for infctl.sh and see if there's anything to un-set. At least look at what it does. (2) uninstall these fonts via "sudo apt-get remove --purge fontconfig-infinality"

My concern with #1 is that it set up stuff to point to these fonts, which you're now uninstalling via #2, so it may be a problem removing stuff and then rebooting to find no fonts. I'm sure you'll see something, just unstyled system fonts though.

bangnagr · 04-10-2015, 06:19 AM

@rtmistler, Thanks for replying. I tried everything I could possibly do from my limited knowledge on fonts/graphics subject. After spending whole night and when nothing changed, I just gave up. I installed again a fresh copy of Arch from scratch.

All I wanted was a gnome-terminal that looked like Ubuntu's terminal. In CentOS-6/7 and Fedoar-21, I did the following steps, which resulted in a smooth fonts in gnome-terminal. Plus, when I added Rainbow preset to PS1 prompt in /etc/bashrc that was generated from Bash $PS1 Generator, the gnome-terminal just looked so cool.

I'll be grateful, if you/someone could help me achieve the same effect in Arch linux.

In CentOS-6/7 & Fedora-21 (RPMFusion repo):

Code:

# yum install freetype-freeworld

$ gsettings "set" "org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.xsettings" "hinting" "slight" 
$ gsettings "set" "org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.xsettings" "antialiasing" "rgba" 
$ echo "Xft.lcdfilter: lcddefault" > ~/.Xresources

# reboot

Many Thanks.

rtmistler · 04-10-2015, 06:55 AM

Is it fonts or colors you really want?

bangnagr · 04-10-2015, 07:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rtmistler

Is it fonts or colors you really want?

Not really. Its just looked good. I was configuring it on my personal laptop not on server. I can definitely live without that

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rtmistler · 04-10-2015, 08:04 AM

My point is that under Ubuntu there are some default aliases:

Code:

alias grep='grep --color=auto'
alias l='ls -CF'
alias la='ls -A'
alias ll='ls -alF'
alias ls='ls --color=auto'

So as a result, any ls is performed in color. Since ls is used in the ll, la, and l aliases, then the --color=auto is also included. I actually usually only use ls and ll. But the fact that files are colored I like a lot and I like seeing the slash / appended to directories due to the -F flag. In fact, for me, I probably should re-alias ls to always include the -F flag, and not just the ll alias case.

Either case, this was what I was talking about, if you like the coloring as a primary benefit and arch doesn't do that (I don't know if it does) then these are some aliases to try, the primary option being the --color=auto part.

Head_on_a_Stick · 04-10-2015, 08:16 AM

The Infinality guide you have linked is quite old and since then @bohoomil has secured an unofficial repository for his Infinality patches.

Follow these instructions for the best font rendering available:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php...tom_repository

There is also a support thread for bohoomil's work on the Arch forums:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=162098

BeaStiE35 · 04-10-2015, 08:59 AM

What's wrong with fonts on Linux??? how is possible most people have 'to import' from winBUG$ ???

bangnagr · 04-11-2015, 08:50 AM

I resolved the problem.

This is what I did.

1. Installed/Reinstalled some packages: xorg xorg-server xorg-xinit xorg-server-utils

2. Added following to ~/.fonts.conf file for MAC OS-X like smooth font render:

Code:

<?xml version='1.0'?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'fonts.dtd'>
<fontconfig>
 <match target="font">
  <edit mode="assign" name="rgba">
   <const>rgb</const>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font">
  <edit mode="assign" name="hinting">
   <bool>false</bool>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font">
  <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle">
   <const>hintslight</const>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font">
  <edit mode="assign" name="antialias">
   <bool>true</bool>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font">
  <edit mode="assign" name="lcdfilter">
   <const>lcddefault</const>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <dir>~/.fonts</dir>
</fontconfig>

3. Installed cope-git from AUR.

All worked well. Looks great.

Thanks you all.