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.