Chances are what you're talking about is anti-aliasing, where the edges of a
piece of text are blended into the background to prevent th appearance of
pixelization. It will be a part of all KDE apps within a couple of months, and
GNOME apps sometime afterwards (around nine months, IIRC).
Mike
Neal Lippman wrote:
> One thing I have noticed is that the "quality" of my display, by which I mean
> the sharpness of text on the screen and the quality of the fonts, just
> doesn't seem as good under X as it does under Windows booted on the same
> system. (For reference, I am using KDE 2.0, mdk 7.2 with kernel upgraded to
> 2.4.1, and X 3.3.x - haven't had a chance yet to wrestle with installing
> 4.0.2, but that's on my list). I have the x font server running. Video card
> is an nVidia GeForce II MX. But again, it's not a hardware issue per se,
> because I am comparing X to windows on the same system.
>
> Why is the quality so much worse under X than windows? Is this just a matter
> of not having tweaked my x settings - I deliberately haven't because a) I AM
> planning to get to X 4.0.2 REAL SOON NOW and b) the monitor I am using isn't
> going to be permanent on this system as soon as I get the dough collected for
> a new one, so maybe I just need some more tweaking. However, I find it hard
> to believe that the basic defaults of X are so much inferior to the defaults
> under Windows, which I understand tends to run monitors at the lowest end of
> their tolerances anyway.
>
> Another issue: X comes with a limited set of not-very-nice appearing fonts,
> while I seem to have hundreds of nice looking fonts under windows with Office
> 2K intalled. I assume there is somewhere that I can get a nicer selection of
> fonts for X...perhaps the 100dpi font RPM for X 4.0.2 is where I should be
> looking.
>
> Any ideas / suggestions? If it would help, I could upload my x config file
> too...
>
> Neal
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