[TIPS] Xfce Font Settings

There are two settings related to Xfce font rendering that make fonts look better: Anti-aliasing and LCD Hinting.

From my experience with Xubuntu these two settings are set to its optimal value, so I never had any complains about the font appearance. But if you think your fonts could look better, proceed as described below.

(click on the images to see the differences)

Anti-aliasing disabled and LCD Hinting set to lcdnone

Anti-aliasing disabled and LCD Hinting set to lcdnone

Anti-aliasing enabled and LCD Hinting set to lcdnone

Anti-aliasing enabled and LCD Hinting set to lcdnone

Anti-aliasing enabled and LCD Hinting set to lcddefault

Anti-aliasing enabled and LCD Hinting set to lcddefault

Check current settings

Open a terminal window and run:

xrdb -query

Fix

If your Xft.antialias is set to "0" or Xft.lcdfilter is not "ldcdefault", run:

# Enable anti-aliasing
xfconf-query -c xsettings -p /Xft/Antialias -n -t int -s 1
# Set LCDHinting to lcddefault
xfconf-query -c xsettings -p /Xft/Lcdfilter -n -t string -s lcddefault

You should logout and in for settings take full effect.

Note:Other possible values for Lcdfilter are lcdnone, lcddefault, lcdlight and lcdlegacy.

References

Appearance [Xfce Docs]

Comments

  1. i seek great help from your site..
    but while i was installing awoken icon themes by terminal this error came.i am using xfce 4.10

    W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/alecive/antigone/ubuntu/dists/quantal/main/source/Sources 404 Not Found

    W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/alecive/antigone/ubuntu/dists/quantal/main/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found

    W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/unity-team/hud/ubuntu/dists/quantal/main/source/Sources 404 Not Found

    E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

    any help would be appreciated

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    1. Are you using 12.10? If true follow the manual installation procedure as described in the article: http://goo.gl/b45GU

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