Subpixel rendering ugly

[lnx64]

Thinking about switching to Fedora from Ubuntu, but noticed a rather oddity in the Sub pixel font rendering, where on my laptops LCD, it looks really ugly..

I can't post links yet, so I don't know how I can demonstrate this with a screenshot. Perhaps if someone can PM me i can show the screenshot..

When I zoom into the text, it's rendering appears the same, but on Fedora the sub pixel colors are a little bit too much saturated, and on Ubuntu, it's just right..

I went into Appearance, and the font settings, and set them to be both identical, yet they render slightly different..

EDIT: To try and explain the settings used from the Font Tab..
Font tab: "Subpixel smoothing (LCDs)"

In details:
Smoothing - Subpixel (LCDs)
Hinting - Slight
Subpixel Order - RGB
Resolution - 96dpi

With that set in both Fedora and Ubuntu, they render the same, but the subpixel colors are just too saturated, where they seem ugly on my LCD, in Fedora.. Ubuntu it looks beautiful..

[oz]

I can't post links yet, so I don't know how I can demonstrate this with a screenshot.

Hello and welcome to the forums!

Take a look at this thread for a temporary work around for the posting of URLs before you have the required 15 posts:

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/com...ng-forums.html

I've found that fonts often look different from one distro to the next even though the configuration settings might be set the same for both distros. It's frustrating at times to say the least. Fonts used to be my number one complaint about Linux, but now I like Linux fonts better than Windows fonts, and the distro that I've used for the last 6 years has fonts set just about the way I like them by default.

[lnx64]

Thanks for the workaround, here's the image.

img.photobucket.com/albums/v395/Evilweredragon/subpixel.png

The left is Fedora, and the right is Ubuntu, with the same settings set in Appearance..

I would like it to look like it does on Ubuntu, as it's much nicer on my LCD..

[oz]

You could check this HowTo and see if anything in it might help you:

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/deb...ts-debian.html

It was written with Debian in mind, but fonts HowTos generally work with other distros, too. I'd recommend making a copy of any files that you change, so that you can put things back the way they were if your fonts become worse after manipulating them.