Questions[antialiasing](ubuntu)

Methods I've already tried:

gnome-tweaks-tool

Fonts -> Antialiasing -> None

~/.fonts.conf

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
    <match target="font">
        <edit name="antialias" mode="assign">
            <bool>false</bool>
        </edit>
        <edit name="rgba" mode="assign">
            <const>none</const>
        </edit>
        <edit name="autohint" mode="assign">
            <bool>false</bool>
        </edit>
        <edit name="hinting" mode="assign">
            <bool>true</bool>
        </edit>
        <edit name="hintstyle" mode="assign">
            <const>hintslight</const>
        </edit>
    </match>
</fontconfig>

~/.xsettingsd

Xft/Hinting 1
Xft/HintStyle "hintslight"
Xft/Antialias 0
Xft/RGBA "rgb"

then run xsettingsd

~/.Xresources

Xft.hinting: 1
Xft.hintstyle: hintslight
Xft.antialias: 0
Xft.rgba: rgb 

then run xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources

(took these from here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Font_configuration#Incorrect_hinting_in_GTK_applications )

But still some apps do antialiasing, e.g. VLC, Telegram, Viber. How do I disable it there?

Upd. A special case is Evince doc viewer. When it renders PDF, it uses some other settings, other than when rendering its gui (menus, windows etc).

It seems that full font hinting doesn't work in 18.04.

Due to low resolution laptop screens, I prefer the fonts with full hinting and grayscale antialiasing.

Changing the font hinting from medium to full seem to have no effect whatsoever.

Here's how fonts look in Ubuntu 16.04, sharp and thin.

and here's how they look in Ubuntu 18.04, thick and blurry.

I tried the following:

1. Changing the settings using Gnome Tweak Tool as shown in screenshot.

2. Copying 10-antialias.conf, 10-no-sub-pixel.conf and 10-hinting-full.conf from /etc/fonts/config.avail/ to /etc/fonts/config.d/ and deleting the conflicting files in config.d/.

3. Putting this fonts.conf in ~/.config/fontsconfig/.

But nothing worked.

Anybody else having the same problem? Any suggested solutions?

Office fonts in wine look very different from what they look in Windows or LibreOffice. As can be seen from the attached screenshots, they look blurry in some sizes and aliased in other sizes. You can see the differences not only in the document text but also in the ribbon menu. It happens with a lot of fonts.

I'm testing it with Office 2010 now, but it also happens in Office 2007.

Things I've tried:

• Changing fontsmooth settings with winetricks -> made no difference.
• Copying fonts from a Windows system -> made no difference.
• Using Ubuntu's fonts (by removing the Windows/Fonts from the wineprefix) -> removed the blurriness in some fonts but increased aliasing.

The three screenshots correspond to different "configurations":

• office_wine.png -> Office Word in Wine using Wine's original fonts;
• office_nowinefonts.png -> Office Word in Wine using Ubuntu's fonts;
• office_windows.png -> Office Word in Windows.

PS: please make sure to see the screenshots without scaling them to notice the problem.

EDIT: A screenshot of how Calibri behaves in Wine here.

Because Unity and Gnome3 where too buggy and unstable I switched to Kubuntu and now I do have a really good speed and, so far, stability.

Still, the problem with Kuduntu, is the all the fonts are broken, ugly like s***, with an weird anti-aliasing.

I've seen other complaining but I wasn't able to find the proper set of settings to make it look uk.

Btw, I put a strong interest on having fonts look good in Chrome and Thunderbird.

Optional:

• I would also like to change the theme (maximize/minimize buttons) to something better.
• Make Chrome use it's own theme instead of having the default KDE titlebar.

Have Ubuntu developers considered adding antialas to a window manager(metacity) in Ubuntu 11.04? If there is coming Unity and Compiz is needed, why not to add this feature to corners of windows manager?