Antialias not working in ubuntu lucid lynx 10.04

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I have recently upgraded from karmic to lucid (plain ubuntu using gnome).

Everything worked fine, but the characters now aren't anti-aliased any more, as you can appreciate from the screenshot:

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This is what I tried to fix the situation, unluckily without succeeding:

  1. Used the regular option pane from System->Preference->Appearance->Font (smoothing, hinting...)
  2. Edited the .fonts.conf file
  3. Disinstalling (and then re-installing) the mstcorefont package
  4. Changing the default Sans font to a font of my liking (e.g. Tahoma) from the abovementioned Appearance options

My ubuntu installation is quite standard, with the typical add-ons one might wish for usability. I used the ubuntu start script to make a few tweaks.

mac

Posted 2010-05-02T22:12:52.830

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Can not confirm, everything is still antialiased nicely after upgrade. I'm using Bitstream Vera Sans though. – vava – 2010-05-03T17:20:15.940

@vava - It seems it has something to do with the font. I am now using a non-standard font and it does antialias correctly, but as soon as I switch to "sans" (which I do not know where points at) or "tahoma" the antialiasing gets messy... Any suggestion on how to refine the search is welcome. – mac – 2010-05-04T12:54:24.987

When you edited .fonts.conf, did you try setting autohint to true? – Juliano – 2010-08-12T14:02:46.797

Did you try the system's fonts.conf or just the one in your user's home directory? – Just Jake – 2011-03-29T21:09:32.617

Answers

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I was never able to fix the problem with that release, but the new LTS 12.04 does not present the same problem any more.

mac

Posted 2010-05-02T22:12:52.830

Reputation: 1 439

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Try creating a new user, log in as the new user, and see whether the problem still exists. If not, something's wrong with your configuration under $HOME (which is common after a distribution upgrade). If it still exists, something is wrong with the system. You may need to sudo aptitude purge some packages (and reinstall them after that, of course) instead of just remove, which leaves system-wide configuration files untouched.

xiaq

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