Fonts Title Bar are Hidious how to change in Gentoo?

[RobinVossen]

Well, How can I make the Default fonts and the fonts used in OpenOffice etc to goodlooking (Microsoft) fonts?
I have heard something about "emerge -av truetype" and of "emerge -av onetype"

But well both dont really work.
Any tips? Docs?

Thanks

Cheers,
Robin

[sdimhoff]

Robin-

Those types of fonts are often a pain in gentoo. In my experience the menu fonts looking bad are caused by three different things.
1.) DPI issue
2.) CRT monitor
3.) anti-aliasing
(can be adjusted in several places. xorg, kde control center, probably somewhere in a gnome wm, etc.)

There is a gentoo guide here which covers a lot of topics but doesn't necessarily cover exact specifics.

Quick Tips:
in /etc/make.conf or package specific in /etc/portage/package.use

USE="truetype .... rest of use flags"

then:

emerge -pv corefonts freetype

Hope it helps.

[RobinVossen]

Thanks a lot..
Well I found what the problem was in the meanwhile.
And well dont Laugh.. I forgot to place to .ttf files in the right X11 folder (SHAME)

Cheers,
Robin

[gruven]

I don't really have a font problem in gentoo. In fact, my fonts in gentoo look better than in my windows install.

You may want to take a look here: HOWTO Xorg and Fonts - Gentoo Linux Wiki

You can play around with some of the settings to make them look great.