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Symptom When running a application from the terminal the following warning is displayed: Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf", line 9: reading configurations from ~/.fonts.conf is deprecated. Fix Open a terminal window and run: mkdir -p $HOME/.config/fontconfig mv $HOME/.fonts.conf $HOME/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf References Fontconfig warning

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 enabled and LCD Hinting set to lcdnone 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 setti...

On startup Gimp loads its own fonts (~/.gimp-X.Y/fonts) and system installed fonts. But there's a way of refreshing the font list without having to restart Gimp. First the "Fonts" dialog must be enabled: Windows > Dockable Dialogs > Fonts Then just use the refresh button positioned on the bottom of the "Fonts" dialog: Related Posts Enable Single-Window Mode in Gimp 2.8 Install GIMP 2.8 in Xubuntu 12.04 (ppa) References Fonts Dialog - Gimp Documentation