[NBLUG/talk] kde 3.5.4 font anti aliasing

Robert Hayes rhayes at silcom.com
Fri Aug 11 19:21:15 PDT 2006


Yer so smart.
The very same thing just reared it's ugly head here.
And viola! there was your fix.
And it worked, too!

On Monday 07 August 2006 01:30, Troy Arnold wrote:
> Recently I upgraded my Debian desktop to KDE 3.5.4, only to have all the
> fonts go to hell.  As I've been growing increasingly unhappy with Debian on
> the desktop lately, I wiped it out in favor of Kubuntu Dapper.  I've
> installed and fiddled with a bunch of distros at installfests, but this is
> the first time in years that I've run anything besides straight Debian on
> my desktop.
>
> I cannot believe how simple that install was.  I could hand that DVD to my
> mom and she'd be fine...  She'd probably continue to be fine after the
> install as well, because the defaults are all sane and everything pretty
> much seems to just work.
>
> So after an hour or so of everything working, I got bored and installed the
> freshly minted Kubuntu packages for KDE 3.5.4, and... my fonts went to
> hell!
>
> I tried several things, but what finally fixed the issue was going into the
> fonts control applet and turning off anti-aliasing, hitting apply, turning
> it back on and hitting apply again.
>
> Putting that out there for any other early adopters that get bit by this
> one...
>
> Overall, I like Kubuntu quite a bit so far.
>
> -troy
>
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