Pretty fonts in XF86
Quick note for the night: I like the
XFree86 Font
De-uglification HOWTO
. It makes my fonts very pretty. I got the
fonts from
http://nuoriso.hel.fi/__files/ms_truetype_core_fonts_for_the_web/Win95-98-NT/index.html
and extracted them with a quick compile of
cabextract
.
Don’t forget to use the
-L
flag to cabextract to get
lowercase filenames. Also, with Red Hat (at least 7.3 i386), ignore
anything that says to modify
/etc/XF86Config*
; instead
play with
/etc/X11/fs/config
and
/etc/X11/XftConfig
. I uncommented the “experimental”
aliases in XftConfig. I turned on the LCD pixel hinting-or-whatever
and it didn’t seem to do much good, but I’ll play with things like
Verdana more in the morning.