Re: F25 XFCE font rendering

2016-11-27 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 26.11.2016, Heinz Diehl wrote: > I'll take a closer look at the remaining F24 system, where this wasn't > of any problem. I bet it has to do with the file mentioned before. For those who care: looked into it, and the file /etc/fonts/conf.d/10-hinting-slight.conf simply wasn't there in previou

Re: F25 XFCE font rendering

2016-11-26 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 26.11.2016, Fred Smith wrote: > So, there's no need to go hacking amongst system config files! The option you mention is not present in F25/XFCE, but in the "Appearance" menue. Anyway, hacking in the system config is definitely needed, because there are programs that presumably do not obey th

Re: F25 XFCE font rendering

2016-11-26 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 26.11.2016, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > I haven't noticed any changes in font rendering. Perhaps this is something > specific to your video hardware. No, it's definitely not. I have the same phenomenon on (now) three different machines. One has nvidia graphics, one AMD and one Intel Ironlake. On

Re: F25 XFCE font rendering

2016-11-26 Thread Fred Smith
On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 04:27:37PM +0100, Heinz Diehl wrote: > On 26.11.2016, Tom Horsley wrote: > > > /etc/fonts/conf.d/10-autohint.conf > > Thanks a lot, you saved my day! > > But it was not the 10-autohint.conf. When I looked into the > /etc/fonts/conf.d directory, I noticed a file called >

Re: F25 XFCE font rendering

2016-11-26 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Heinz Diehl writes: Hi, updated two machines from F24 to F25, and now the fonts configured in Applications -> Settings -> Appearance are no longer on the same level of sharpness/clarity as they were in previous Fedora releases. I haven't noticed any changes in font rendering. Perhaps this is

Re: F25 XFCE font rendering

2016-11-26 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 26.11.2016, Tom Horsley wrote: > /etc/fonts/conf.d/10-autohint.conf Thanks a lot, you saved my day! But it was not the 10-autohint.conf. When I looked into the /etc/fonts/conf.d directory, I noticed a file called "10-hinting-slight.conf". After changing it to perform "hintfull", all is prett

Re: F25 XFCE font rendering

2016-11-26 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 26 Nov 2016 15:34:11 +0100 Heinz Diehl wrote: > Does anybody know what's going on and what I can do to get back > pre-F25 behaviour? I don't know if it will help, but I've always found this file to make all fonts look better: /etc/fonts/conf.d/10-autohint.conf true Have

F25 XFCE font rendering

2016-11-26 Thread Heinz Diehl
Hi, updated two machines from F24 to F25, and now the fonts configured in Applications -> Settings -> Appearance are no longer on the same level of sharpness/clarity as they were in previous Fedora releases. It is considerably visible in Thunderbird and Firefox. While there was no problem to get c