Antialiasing fonts in Fluxbox?

I have read numerous posts, blogs, and wiki info about antialiasing fonts in Fluxbox, system-wide. I altered my /etc/fonts/font.conf to include
<match target="font">
<edit mode="assign" name="antialias"><bool>true</bool></edit>
</match>
and altered my ~/.fluxbox/init to include
session.screen0.antialias: true
both with no success.
To make things clear, I have GTK and QT installed - and apps that use those respective toolkits look just fine; font is beautiful.
I am very new to Arch Linux, and new to the Arch forums, so if I'm posting in the wrong section or am asking a stupid question - let me know.
Also: I know this is not the time nor place - but I wanted to thank anyone who has contributed to Arch for making such a wonderful distro.
And another thanks to all/anyone willing to waste their own with my problems.
If you need any additional info - let me know and I will post it.

Update: I ran across a post saying that installing Xfce helped with Openbox fonts and installing KDE helped in GNOME - so I tried it. Xfce did not work; so I uninstalled it and installed KDE - and it worked. ALL my fonts look good now. However, this is not really solving my original problem, just finding a quick fix. I'd still like the appropriate answer if it's out there so I can get rid of KDE.

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Hi,
I am annoyed with Xorg 100/75 dpi fonts that is being used by some sites like this:
http://www.linuxtimes.net/modules.php?n … le&sid=831
I use firefox 1.0.4
In other distro, this does not happen.
And in kcontrol fonts manager, I see a lot of non-antialiased/bitmap fonts scattered and one of them Helvetica which I suspect the site is using it since when I deleted it, firefox crash when I refresh the page. But after reloading firefox the same webpage uses antialiased fonts.
Somehow the ugly (bitmap) fonts gets priority when that webpage is shown. Maybe the webpage uses Helvetica as its fonts.
But I cannot delete all those ugly bitmap fonts, my gnucash needs the bitmap Helvetica fonts and it crashes when I deleted those bitmap fonts.
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Anyone had similar problem and maybe some solutions?
Thanks.
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Yep, you are right.
It should work that way. But I don't understand why helvetica is bitmap font and it is not truetype one. I can't check Fedora or Ubuntu. But when I was using it last time, Fedora has a very nice fonts in Gnucash (it should be helvetica) and Ubuntu has not so nice fonts (jagged). Both does not affect the way firefox display fonts. Yes, it's a bit confusing since I cannot give the exact details. I have reformatted both Fedora and Ubuntu and now I am using Arch.
I will try to define font replacement like what you suggest.
I wonder how to make Gnucash to use other fonts. Or whether by overwriting the same helvetica font with truetype will crash Gnucash.
Thanks
Jerry
nggalai wrote:
jery_wang2002 wrote:It just annoy me when something does not work as it is supposed to.
Err, it DOES work as it's supposed to: The web site asks for Helvetica, hence you'll get Helvetica.
FONT {FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; FONT-SIZE: 12px}
TD {FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; FONT-SIZE: 12px}
BODY {FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; FONT-SIZE: 12px}
P {FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; FONT-SIZE: 12px}
DIV {FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; FONT-SIZE: 12px}
/* Tweaks */
TABLE {FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; FONT-SIZE: 12px}
A {FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; FONT-SIZE: 12px}
IMG {FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; FONT-SIZE: 12px}
FORM {FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; FONT-SIZE: 12px}
TH {FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; FONT-SIZE: 12px}
TR {FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; FONT-SIZE: 12px}
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Antialiased fonts in all components?

hi,
does anyone know how the IntelliJ IDE manages to have its GUI components all have anti-aliased fonts?
it seems to do this independently of the look and feel, so I'm guessing its not a property of those in particular
thanks,
asjf

As for programatically doing it in Java, one solution is to override the paintComponent() method in your component and cast the Graphics object to a Graphics2D object then specify antialiasing to the rendering hints method.thats quite a nice workaround, in the short term at least :)
it would be nice if this was supported in Swing though..

Is it possible to have antialiasing font under gnome and ...

... and Mozilla browsers ? (Firebird, epiphany...)
My gnome is ugly without AA

er... yes?
This is the default. Pretty much everything X-based is anti-aliased now. Has been for awhile.
Make sure you either setup your fonts in your browser to ones that will AA, or you set your defaults for Times, Sans, Serif, ect. in /etc/fonts/local.conf to ones that will AA. Otherwise they'll look ugly.

Fluxbox fonts suck after an upgrade [SOLVED]

I upgraded Arch after a month (too long I know) and the fonts in fluxbox look horrible. They look like a choppy typewriter font (menus, window titles, etc..). Fonts in every other application look fine (i.e. same as before upgrade).
I saw this thread:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=25864
I tried a few of the suggestions on the thread, but it seems like every other post has a different solution. Also, some people mentioned changing options like autohinter or bitmap on and off, but I'm sort of confused and don't know how to do that (e.g. font.avail, conf.d, ??). I typed fonts in the wiki, but couldn't much help there for this.
Anyone have some "dumbed-down" advice for someone who is confused about how fonts work in Linux?

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Hi,
I just downloaded JDK 6 to check how hard it will be to replace Java 5 on our project. I realized it won't be painless =/
So far, the problems I found were:
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Regards,
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Create your GUI and start your app on the EDT. Also only do row manipulation on the EDT. Most Swing operations are not threadsafe and must be done on the EDT. If this app worked prior to Java 6, it was only by chance.
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When using unaliased fonts GTK2 apps look messy

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append anitalisa false setting in your "/etc/font/local.conf" or "~/.fonts"
this is my setting.
<match>
<test>
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<string>BatangChe</string>
<string>Gungsuh</string>
<string>GungsuhChe</string>
<string>Gulim</string>
<string>GulimChe</string>
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Hi! This isn't the normal technical kind of question, I just don't know where else to ask.
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Screenshot with one window, divided by tmux: http://i59.tinypic.com/182kyf.png
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Last edited by cyru5ol (2014-07-06 13:05:51)

It's been a few years since I've done anything in LT.
Motion's text capabilities make it really worth learning for titling concepts. It's not hard and it can produce great results – better than I could do on LT.
So consider downloading Motion and experiment – or try Motion out on someone else's Mac. (AE is a bigger commitment.)
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panosk wrote:I installed the newest release of koffice2 in hope that the bold, strongly antialiased fonts of the previous versions would have been corrected. Instead, now the fonts look horrible, jagged, almost unreadable (in the text area, not the interface). Are there any workarounds for this? Or maybe we should mix the excellent functionality and font-rendering of Openoffice with the interface of koffice
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Many years ago I used to develop for the Mac (now I'm a Mac-challenged Windows guy).
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