10.4, poor font rendering and other asorted screen damage

[Basil Chupin]

On 03/05/10 20:39, Mark Greenwood wrote:
>> On Monday 03 May 2010 03:47:24 Gene Heskett wrote:
>> Greetings;
>>
>> Installed 10.4 yesterday&  it seems to work ok on a box with less that
>> stellar speed potential, but with one caveat:
>>
>> The font rendering in some programs sucks, or screen damages are not being
>> redrawn, take your pick, it seems to depend on the program.
>>
>> Font rendering is pretty bad in firefox, and I believe much the same problem
>> exists in the card games as there is all sorts of trash left behind when you
>> move a card.
>>
>> A bash shell OTOH, renders perfectly and can be scrolled either direction
>> without showing any screen damages there.  But gedit can become almost
>> unreadable.
>>
>> Is this a known problem?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>      
> I had something similar after a fresh install. It was all looking OK until I installed the nvidia driver. What I did was to install the msttcorefonts package and choose a TrueType font as my default font (I use Verdana). I also enabled Anti-Aliasing, then rebooted. Somehow this cleared the problem.
>
> Mark
>    

Not all fonts are created equal :-) . There are fonts which look alright 
in print and created just for this purpose - as for letters and, say, 
newspapers, etc; and then there are those created specifically for 
monitors. I think Verdana is one of those fonts developed for monitors, 
and so is DeJaVu (I think :-) ). Have a look in the Wikipedia about fonts.

BC

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