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Ugly fonts/visualization

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Thursday, November 1st 2007, 12:30pm

Ugly fonts/visualization

Hello, I run KDE 3.5.8 on a fresh installation of Kubuntu 7.10.
As a consequence of something I did (but I don't know what, because I'm installing a lot of packages and doing many tests, because I just switched from Opensuse to Kubuntu), now the visualization appear very ugly (see schermata1.png). I created a dummy user, and its visualization is ok (schermata2.png). In both screenshots I use monospace font with dimension 11. So I guess that I can fix the problem just editing some configuration file in my account. But which file??
Thank you for your help.
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Friday, November 2nd 2007, 11:00am

RE: Ugly fonts/visualization

Go to kcontrol / themes / fonts and play with the antialiasing options (I don't know the exact menus in English since I use it in Romanian, but this is the idea).

The file you could edit is ~/.fonts.conf, but I don't recommend this if you can get what you want using the first way.

Also the fonts from your second snapshot seem bigger.
Enjoy

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Friday, November 2nd 2007, 11:20am

Thanks, but playing with antialiasing is the first thing I tried.
I solved the problem with a brute-force approach: I deleted a lot of configuration files and directories. So I don't know which one was responsible of the malfunctioning.
The fonts in the second snapshot seem bigger, true, but I selected the same font in both cases (monospace 11). It looked like everything was badly visualized in the first case.