"ugly" fonts on gnome

I've just downloaded packages from gnome and gnome-extra.I don't know how to explain but I thought default fonts of Gnome would look the same in every distro, but here are pretty different with respect to my previous slack installation, even if I always use Sans font. could it depend on xorg configuration?

you could also try dejavufonts. They are an extension of the bitstream-vera fonts
Also, read this: (I used to use LCD packages, now I use the ubuntu ones in AUR)
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fonts
when I first started using Arch, I didn't realize just how much info is in the WIKI. You can find the solutions (with nice how-tos) to a VERY large portion of ??s you may have when starting out.
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Main_Page
Use the search feature to find pages quickly

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Hello, I would want to know how I can change the fonts of GTK apps in e17, cause it looks really ugly compared with gnome...
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http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/4176/pantallazomp4.png
And this my e17 desktop:
http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/8717/2 … 400rm8.png
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Greetings

Davigetto wrote:
Hello, I would want to know how I can change the fonts of GTK apps in e17, cause it looks really ugly compared with gnome...
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http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/4176/pantallazomp4.png
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Greetings
can i be honest?!
imo the fonts in e17 are looking better than on the gnome-shot!
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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>


<match target="pattern" name="family">
<test name="family" qual="any">
<string>Courier</string>
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<edit name="family" mode="assign">

<string>Bitstream Vera Sans Mono</string>
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<edit name="rgba" mode="assign">
<const>rgb</const>
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<edit name="autohint" mode="assign">
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<edit name="antialias" mode="assign">
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<edit name="hintstyle" mode="assign">
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<match target="font">
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<const>medium</const>
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<edit name="autohint" mode="assign">
<bool>false</bool>
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<selectfont>
<rejectfont>
<pattern>
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[SOLVED] Ugly fonts :/

Hi,
I dont know why did this happen. I'm a Gnome user and I wanted to take a look on KDE, so I've instaled KDEmod. I didn't have polish language charecters, so I wantet to change the font in KDE (using KDE Settings Tool) while I was switching through fonts and font's options - antialiasing, suddenly the fonts changed to ugly! I logged back to Gnome and its the same! I dont know what happened. When I delete the ~/.gconf I have the same problem, changing fonts in gnome-control-center doesnt help as all fonts there look ugly:
http://matchil.hopto.org/fonts.png
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I've tried, but fc-cache -vf seems to rebuild the font cache, I've logged in to OpenBox and fonts in OB menu and in OB windows bars looks ok, but the one using gtk/qt no . I dont even know with which config files or setting should I mess with
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Problem is still here in openjdk6, not in jre/jdk.
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I managed to fix the problem. I created the file "~/.fonts.conf" with
<?xml version="1.0"?>
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<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="rgba" >
<const>rgb</const>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font" >
<edit mode="assign" name="antialias" >
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</edit>
</match>
</fontconfig>
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fc-cache -vf
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Hi,
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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5589
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<td width="18%"><div align="center"><a
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<tr>
<th width="3%" class="style34"
scope="col"> </th>
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<th class="style23" scope="col"> </th>
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<th class="style34" scope="col"> </th>
<th colspan="2" class="style34"
scope="col"> </th>
<th colspan="3" class="style34"
scope="col"> </th>
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<th class="style34" scope="col"> </th>
<th width="2%" class="style34"
scope="col"> </th>
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<th width="2%" class="style34"
scope="col"> </th>
<th width="3%" class="style34"
scope="col"> </th>
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<tr>
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</div></td>
</tr>
<tr class="style27">
<td><div align="center" class="style31 style1
style2">copyright 2006 <br />
Carlton-Green Publishing
Co Ltd </div></td>
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