GNOME 3 Fonts: Font looks off in Applications (GNOME Shell)

The fonts under Applications in GNOME Shell look like I'm missing a font. What font's are required by GNOME 3. There are also multiple entries of applications.

half-left wrote:
Instructions:
Backup your theme directory first. Extract the zip file and rename "gnome-shell" directory to "theme" and copy to /usr/share/gnome-shell/. This path is usually where GNOME Shell is installed.
Restart GNOME Shell by Alt, F2, then type r and press enter.
You can use the gnome-shell theme extension for easier installation of themes.
If it doesn't work check the permissions on /usr/share/gnome-shell/theme directory.
I tried Drakfire Caffe Shell Theme and fonts look much better, but I don't like colors.

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I am really used to using firefox in Windows XP where fonts are readable out-of-the-box. By this I mean I didn't have to fiddle with firefox when I installed it, the fonts looked great.
Now that I'm using Gnome, I see that firefox's fonts are really too small. The glyphs are smashed together too. How can I get the fonts to look decent in firefox? I'm not sure if this is an OS-level setting or a firefox-level setting.
Last edited by void.pointer (2009-02-04 04:57:55)

If you have an LCD monitor, try this:
Copy & paste the code below into a file called
.fonts.conf
[NOTE: It's a hidden file ! ]
and save it in your home directory. Log out & in again and fire up The Fox !
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">

<fontconfig>

<match target="font" >
<edit mode="assign" name="rgba" >
<const>none</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>hintfull</const>
</edit>
</match>

<match target="font" >
<edit mode="assign" name="antialias">
<bool>true</bool>
</edit>
</match>

<match target="pattern" >
<edit mode="assign" name="autohint">
<bool>true</bool>
</edit>
</match>

<match target="pattern" name="family" >
<test name="family" qual="any" >
<string>Helvetica</string>
</test>
<edit mode="assign" name="family" >
<string>sans-serif</string>
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</match>
<dir>~/.fonts</dir>
</fontconfig>
All credit to LinuxQuestions for this conf file.
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Try opening up:
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For some time, I have had problems keeping older applications working well as the X font system evolves. For example, I have many drawings created in Xfig, and the fonts stopped being rendered correctly some time ago. Converting all these files for a new drawing package like Inkscape would be a pain. The other main problem occurs with a commercial CAD package (Eagle), which is statically linked to Qt2, and does not play nicely when anti-aliasing is applied to Qt3/KDE apps.
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Mozilla (which uses Gtk) needs some individual tweaking, as the UI fonts end up far too big. In preferences->fonts, set the resoultion to 72 DPI.
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The problem with Eagle appears to be related to the fact that it uses Qt2 (statically linked) in a Qt3 environment. This might also occur with other apps, but Eagle is the only one I know about. When antialising is turned on via KDE control center, this modifies .qt/qtrc, and so affects all Qt applications. If I have anti-aliasing turned on, the fonts in Eagle are very ragged and badly spaced.
I fixed this by modifying the font path in XF86Config, to remove the entry /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF. The problem appears to be that Eagle is picking up one of the True Type fonts, instead of a Type 1 or bitmapped font. Turning on antialing in Qt appears to alter its font selection behaviour (fontconfig?) as well as font rendering.
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See here:
http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/5389/fontt.jpg
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I'm having problems getting fonts to look good. I've tried following the directions on the Fonts page on the wiki with regards to subpixel rendering (which might end up not being the problem, I don't know), but it hasn't helped. In particular, my favourite font, Consolas, looks pretty bad on Arch.
Here's Windows 7, which is how I would like it to look:
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Last edited by kens (2011-11-12 21:29:05)

Hi brebs, thanks for the reply. I had tried installing infinality, but I can't because pacman says this:
$ sudo pacman -U freetype2-infinality-2.4.7-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
:: freetype2-infinality and freetype2-ubuntu are in conflict (freetype2). Remove freetype2-ubuntu? [y/N] y
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
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:: libxft-ubuntu: requires freetype2-ubuntu
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Last edited by kens (2011-11-12 22:14:01)

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click here
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Hello
My program im writing recently is a small tiny application which can change fonts, font sizes, font colors and background color of the graphics object containing some strings. Im planning to use Jcomboboxes for all those 4 ideas in implementing those functions. Somehow it doesnt work! Any help would be grateful.
So currently what ive done so far is that: Im using two classes to implement the whole program. One class is the main class which contains the GUI with its components (Jcomboboxes etc..) and the other class is a class extending JPanel which does all the drawing. Therefore it contains a graphics object in that class which draws the string. However what i want it to do is using jcombobox which should contain alit of all fonts available/ font sizes/ colors etc. When i scroll through the lists and click the one item i want - the graphics object properties (font sizes/ color etc) should change as a result.
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public class main...
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public class DrawingBoard extends JPanel {
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       My problems have been highlighted in the comments of code above.
Any help will be much appreciated thanks!!!

It is the completely correct code
I hope that's what you need
Just put DrawingBoard into JFrame and run
Good luck!
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     private String message = "message";
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