I didn't use FreeBSD for a couple of years (I used Gentoo and Arch instead) and now I decided to refresh my experience with FreeBSD (10.0). My favorite DE is XFCE. On my good old notebook (ThinkPad T40: 1024x768) I have both: Arch and FreeBSD.
Under Arch with standard freetype and fonconfig my fonts were quite ugly. No tuning in /etc/fonts.local.conf , for example :
made it satisfactory. Fortunately I installed unofficial, infinality patched versions:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/free ... nfinality/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/font ... nfinality/
which after minor tuning made my fonts beautiful.
Under FreeBSD (similar local.conf, of course in /usr/local/etc/fonts) official freetype and fontconfig produce acceptable font rendering... although noticeably worse than patched Arch. How about infinality patched packages:
- are they available officially? under some other name?
- downloadable from...?
- official packages are patched - maybe not with the newest pataches?
-...?
Any information welcome.
Under Arch with standard freetype and fonconfig my fonts were quite ugly. No tuning in /etc/fonts.local.conf , for example :
Code:
<?xml version='1.0'?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'fonts.dtd'>
<fontconfig>
<match target="font" >
<edit mode="assign" name="rgba" ><const>rgb</const></edit>
<edit mode="assign" name="hinting" ><bool>true</bool></edit>
<edit mode="assign" name="autohint" ><bool>true</bool></edit>
<edit mode="assign" name="antialias" ><bool>true</bool></edit>
<edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle" ><const>hintslight</const></edit>
<edit name="lcdfilter" mode="assign"><const>lcddefault</const></edit>
</match>
[...]
made it satisfactory. Fortunately I installed unofficial, infinality patched versions:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/free ... nfinality/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/font ... nfinality/
which after minor tuning made my fonts beautiful.
Under FreeBSD (similar local.conf, of course in /usr/local/etc/fonts) official freetype and fontconfig produce acceptable font rendering... although noticeably worse than patched Arch. How about infinality patched packages:
- are they available officially? under some other name?
- downloadable from...?
- official packages are patched - maybe not with the newest pataches?
-...?
Any information welcome.