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Workaround: broken font rendering Ksnapshot & Krunner

Fonts look weird in ksnapshot. After investigating around, I found that the problem is called kerning. It is indeed didn’t noticable for some people. To solve this problem, I force ksnapshot to use raster graphics system instead of native. $ ksnapshot -graphicssystem raster Here is the comparison, left image is using native, the right one is using raster. Look at the button more precisly. Do you notice it? Luckily I noticed it.

Oxygen font v0.2 New Eyecandy for my KDE Desktop

The new looking of Oxygen font (v0.2) is quite different with the previous one. Just grab it from here and enjoy the power of open source. A screenshot is worth thousand words: =-=-=-=-= Powered by Blogilo

Fix: Ugly Fonts in KDM

Hanya mengatur hint+/antialias font untuk keseluruhan system. Caranya create /etc/fonts/local.conf with this content <?xml version='1.0'?> <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'fonts.dtd'> <fontconfig> <match target="font" > <edit mode="assign" name="rgba" > <const>rgb</const> </edit> </match> <match target="font" > <edit mode="assign" name="hinting" > <bool>true</bool> </edit> </match> <match target="font" > <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle" > <const>hintslight</const> </edit> </match> <match target="font" > <edit mode="assign" name="lcdfilter" > <const>lcddefault</const> </edit> </match> <selectfont> <rejectfont> <pattern> <patelt name="scalable" > <bool>false</bool> </patelt> </pattern> </rejectfont> </selectfont> <match target="font" > <edit mode="assign" name="antialias" > <bool>true</bool> </edit> </match> </fontconfig> Result: =-=-=-=-=