How to disable antialiasing fonts?

[hruodr]

I have Mozilla Firefox 93.0 and I do not want the antialiasing fonts. How to disable it? Thanks!

 

[Alain De Vos]

According to google, you could check the fonts as used by firefox and create a .fonts.conf file with <edit name="antialias" mode="assign">
Beautifull fonts are a personal taste and can depend on your monitor.

 

[hruodr]

I changed to true the following with about:config
gfx.text.disable-aa

Fonts are nicer, but not nice enough.Perhaps I have now to chanche the fonts.
Any suggestion?

After an upgrade fonts are not anymore sharp enough. It is a pain for my eyes.

 

[eternal_noob]

Try disabling bitmap fonts if you haven't already: cd /usr/local/etc/fonts/conf.d && ln -s ../conf.avail/70-no-bitmaps.conf

 

[hruodr]

Try disabling bitmap fonts if you haven't already: cd /usr/local/etc/fonts/conf.d && ln -s ../conf.avail/70-no-bitmaps.conf

I did that, but what I win with it?

The horrible fonts are in the URL and Search field, also if I leave the web sites
select the font.

 

[hruodr]

In any case, thanks Alain De Vos, eternal_noob.

I have now the original state, and "Adobe Courier" everywhere.Do not let pages set font.

I am getting sharp fonts in normal places, but unsharp antialiased fonts in standard
places of firefox.Something changed in the last upgrade.

Am I the only one having problems with the cool antialiased fonts? I had
to recompile emacs to avoid them.

 

[Geezer]

Are you using firefox within a DE?

In xfce (what I use), firefox uses the font for the address line that is the font that I have set as the default font in the xfce appearance settings.

 

[hruodr]

Are you using firefox within a DE?

No, no DE, plain X11. It is no wonder that firefox supposes everyone uses a DE.

 

[Cath O'Deray]

… no DE, plain X11. …

Somewhat off-topic, but part of what's linked might be of interest: FreeBSD bug 258293 – www/firefox (1729109) The preferred default font is no longer used, for some sites, following an upgrade from Firefox 91.0.2.

… 93.0 …

… Something changed in the last upgrade. …

I don't recall any difference.

Try more recent version 94.0.1,2.

<https://www.freshports.org/www/firefox/#history>

 

[Cath O'Deray]

Try more recent version 94.0.1,2.

hruodr what was the outcome?

 

[hruodr]

hruodr what was the outcome?

I solved it by selecting other fonts in firefox.

But I have the problem now with xdvi.

I will have to return to the tema when I have more time.
The solution must be for the whole system, not for only firefox.

I wonder if I am the only one that have problems with the blur fonts.

 

[hruodr]

From:

Chapter 5. The X Window System

This chapter describes how to install and configure Xorg on FreeBSD, which provides the open source X Window System used to provide a graphical environment

docs.freebsd.org

Anti-aliasing makes borders slightly fuzzy, which makes very small text more readable and removes "staircases" from large text, but can cause eyestrain if applied to normal text. To exclude font sizes smaller than 14 point from anti-aliasing, include these lines: ...

I tried with:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>

<match target="font">
<edit name="antialias" mode="assign">
<bool>false</bool>
</edit>
</match>

</fontconfig>

But it does not help.

 

[hruodr]

Well, small progress. The above does work for firefox. Unfortunately not for xdvi.

Also with xpdf3-3.04_11 I still have the problem.

It really alleviates not to see the blur fonts in firefox anymore. I cannot understand
why others do not have the problem.

 

[hruodr]

More small progress:

xpdf -aa no file.pdf
gv -noantialias file.ps

Why this madness with blurring / antialiasing?!

The more critical problem is not solved: xdvi.
I write my TeX files and read them at the same time with xdvi.
Concentrating in the blurred text is a pain.

 

[hruodr]

xdvi -nogrey file.dvi

Do no antialiasing, but the quality is so poor that the horizontal line of the letter e disappears.