luxi sans and debian - please help!

[nomar]

How come I cant get the Luxi Sans font to look good in Debian?

All other distro's seem fine but however I install luxi sans on debian (Gnome desktop) it looks bad.

I've tried all sorts, on many installs - same result!

Is this common? can someone help?

Cheers.

[Dolda2000]

bpark, another user of this forum, has also had a lot of trouble with that same thing. I think he has spent many months researching it without ever getting far on it.

[bpark]

Actually, I'm still working on this. I am determined to get this working or die trying.

For a temporary solution, you can edit /etc/fonts/local.conf and uncomment the last as follows:

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

This will at least the font look more proportional. Unfortunately, the fonts won't be clear as RH.

[nomar]

Thanks bpark, this has really made a huge difference. it looks about as good as RH to me

I've looked everywhere for a solution with no luck! Why haven't more people asked?

Cheers,

Nomar.