Some Xorg fonts are ugly (webpages in SeaMonkey)

[Gb]

Hello,

I am not using KDE, Gnome desktop (only gnome libraries for some programs) or Xfce.

I read the Font_de-uglification_HOWTO, and now in my xorg.conf I have got:

[sofar]

webpages often force sub-optimal fonts on them. Just tell your browser to always use your own fonts instead of the webpage fonts.

[Gb]

Thank you for your reply.

I would like to briefly recap what I actually did to get almost everything to work.
This may be useful to other users.

1. I installed freetype2
2. I installed various TTF from the relevant packages found in lunar.
3. I got hold of some additional TTF fonts from the web.

1. 2. 3. really made a huge difference.

4. I used .Xsession instead of .Xresources. I don't know why
but putting my stuff in .Xsession
instead of .Xresources really did the trick
of automating the "--dpi 192" switch.

5. Mozilla/Firefox/Seamonkey etc.
probably require some manual changes
to the default fonts (and using the
Preferences in the menus doesn't help).
Some sites, such as this Forum, are displayed nicely now via Freetype2.
Some other places force strange fonts,
and the "defaults" substitutes are usually not TTFs, thus ugly.
Experimentation should fix that too.

As for the subpixel rendering, this is the trick:
When defining an X font through an X font definition (look on the web for this beast, there are basically two types, one for TTF and one for the others, but it seems that TTF can be described in the "old" way too),
place:":rgba=rgb" at the end of the string.
That is ok if your LCD uses the red-green-blue order. Other combinations are possible too.

Gb