I’m trying to migrate my wife over to linux and have set up an account
for her on my openSUSE 11.0 install. Everything is going smoothly with
the exception that I can’t get the sub-pixel rendering enabled on HER
account. It is enabled on mine, and the fonts look great. Without
sub-pixel rendering, the fonts look terrible on our LCD monitor.
I have searched the forum and reviewed several threads on font settings
and enabling sub-pixel rendering, but unless I’m missing something
(quite possible) I don’t think they apply, here. I can’t figure out why
this option is grayed-out for her. The only difference in permissions
between the two accounts is that mine includes the DISK group, but I’m
not clear why that would be necessary for the font settings. Any help
would be greatly appreciated! I want as smooth a transition for her as
possible, and appearance is very important.
Thanks,
Swamp Yankee
PS This is my 1st foray into multiple user accounts on the same
install, so I am not 100% on which settings are system-wide and which
are account-specific. I apologize if there is an obvious answer that I
missed in my searches.
This may be a far shot, but the only thing that comes to mind is file
permissions. Have you perchance compiled the cleartype library for your
account only or placed it somewhere in your /home? Or maybe, it’s
located where it should be, but its file permissions are wrong? That
would explain the behaviour you’re describing.
– http://stopsoftwarepatents.eu/ Even if free software were crap, it should still get our preference
over the non-free crap secreted by IT corporations.
-A free rephrasing of RMS-
Thanks for the suggestion. I don’t recall compiling anything to get the
sub-pixel rendering enabled for my account, but its been a while since I
set everything up. Is there a simple way to determine the location of
the cleartype library to help me resolve this?
This enabled the “sub-pixel rendering” options under: desktop settings
> appearance > fonts - these options had been grayed-out in my wife’s
account previously.
However, changes to these settings do not appear to have any effect on
the font rendering. If I toggle between the two accounts, the difference
is stark, even with identical font settings. This includes menu items,
window titles, etc. not just firefox & openoffice, which I understand
render fonts differently.
I’m afraid I can’t help you there. I thought you couldn’t enable font
smoothing at all – now I understand you can (it’s not greyed-out), it
just doesn’t have any effect. Try double-checking if other font settings
(which fonts, what sizes etc.) match in both accounts. There may be
other settings interfering. Maybe if you create a temporary dummy
account and try enabling font smoothing there, it can help you
troubleshoot the thing. Depends also on what desktop environment you’re
using – KDE (3.x or 4.x) or Gnome.
– http://stopsoftwarepatents.eu/ Even if free software were crap, it should still get our preference
over the non-free crap secreted by IT corporations.
-A free rephrasing of RMS-
swamp_yankee;1909408 Wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I’m trying to migrate my wife over to linux and have set up an account
> for her on my openSUSE 11.0 install. Everything is going smoothly with
> the exception that I can’t get the sub-pixel rendering enabled on HER
> account. It is enabled on mine, and the fonts look great. Without
> sub-pixel rendering, the fonts look terrible on our LCD monitor.
>
> I have searched the forum and reviewed several threads on font settings
> and enabling sub-pixel rendering, but unless I’m missing something
> (quite possible) I don’t think they apply, here. I can’t figure out why
> this option is grayed-out for her. The only difference in permissions
> between the two accounts is that mine includes the DISK group, but I’m
> not clear why that would be necessary for the font settings. Any help
> would be greatly appreciated! I want as smooth a transition for her as
> possible, and appearance is very important.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Swamp Yankee
>
> PS This is my 1st foray into multiple user accounts on the same
> install, so I am not 100% on which settings are system-wide and which
> are account-specific. I apologize if there is an obvious answer that I
> missed in my searches.
Try looking into “ls ~/.font” AFAIK those files have to do with font
configuration in your user account. you can backup your wife’s files,
and then copy yours (.font) to her ~/wife directory.
I’m not sure about all this, just giving a suggestions! YMMV. No
warranty, blah blah =)
Following the suggestions above, I replaced my wife’s ~/.fontconfig
contents with the files from my accounts ~/.fontconfig.
Finally, everything looks good. lol! Perhaps I missed some basic
configuration settings between the two accounts, even though I went
through them numerous times. I was running parallel sessions for the two
accounts and was switching back and forth, and I thought I had
everything matched. Oh well, It is working well now, and that was my
main goal.