Horrible fonts 11.10

[Mark Greenwood]

On 14 Mar 2012, at 14:52, Nigel Ridley wrote:

> On 03/14/2012 12:58 PM, Mark Greenwood wrote:
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>> I quite often find that when you change those font settings you need to log out and log in again before they have the correct effect. It can be tedious. I also find that setting it to one thing and then changing it back doesn't always get it back to the initial state without a complete reboot, or maybe two complete reboots. Shouting at it helps too, I think. It's been that way since I can remember, even back into KDE3.
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>> Mark
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>> On 14 Mar 2012, at 10:53, Nigel Ridley wrote:
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>>> Running 11.10
>>> Don't really know why I did it but I went into System Setting>  Application Appearance>  Fonts and changed the option 'Use anti_aliasing:' from 'System Settings' to 'Enabled' and then clicked on the 'Configure' button and checked 'Use sub-pixel rendering:'RGB' and then chose 'Hinting style:' 'Medium'. Clicked 'OK' and then 'Apply'.
>>> Then the fonts looked ugly in newly opened apps. I then went back and returned the font setting to how they were to begin with: 'Use anti_aliasing:' 'System Settings'. But still the fonts looked the same :-( No matter what I tried to change the fonts still are ugly.
>>> 
>>> What can I do to get back my nice looking fonts?
>>> 
>>> Nigel
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> Tried the 2 reboots after putting back the settings as they were originally but the fonts are not crisp as they used to be.
> Since this was a per-user setting (I didn't have to enter my password so it can't have had a system wide effect), there must be a config file somewhere in .kde that I can change or overwrite. Any ideas what it might be called?
> 
> I might just rename .kde and let KDE create a new one (then arrange my user space how I like it......…).

Generally for things like this I go and look in ~/.kde/share/config and find a file that looks as though it has the right sort of filename. They're all plain text as well so you can read them. Find the right one, or guess at one, move it somewhere else, and log out.

Mark

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