Fonts in some Wine applications (Word 2007 for example) are heavily aliased. How do I turn on anti aliasing for Wine applications?
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The easiest way is through winetricks
mkdir ~/bin
cd ~/bin
wget http://winetricks.org/winetricks
chmod +x ./winetricks
winetricks fontsmooth-rgb
In newer version of winetricks the command to use is
winetricks settings fontsmooth=rgb
There are other LCD pixel orders available. You can read about them and the rest of the impressive winetricks feature list on its WineHQ site.
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@Roland it is but I can't attest to which version it is. Though the logic doesn't apply to something as simple as this,
winetricksis one of those things you want to keep as recent as possible if you're following install guides that use it heavily.– Oli ♦Mar 8, 2011 at 18:38 -
1The wine ppa has updated versions :D, so you can use that as an additional option ^^ Mar 8, 2011 at 18:40
Just adding details to Oli's answer for those who need it: what winetricks settings fontsmooth=rgb actually does is creating and importing a registry file with the following content:
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]
"FontSmoothing"="2"
"FontSmoothingGamma"=dword:00000578
"FontSmoothingOrientation"=dword:00000001
"FontSmoothingType"=dword:00000002
Once you saved it as fontsmoothing.reg you can import it with:
wine regedit fontsmoothing.reg
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1As of today there are several options for
fontsmooth, namelybgr,disable,grayandrgb. Default values are"FontSmoothing"=2,"FontSmoothingGamma"=dword:0x0,"FontSmoothingOrientation"=dword:0x1,"FontSmoothingType"=dword:0x1, so only"FontSmoothingGamma"and"FontSmoothingType"get updated in the option fontsmooth=rgb Feb 14, 2021 at 11:20
An alternative method with no relation on a temp file:
$ env WINEPREFIX=~/.wine/<prefix> wine reg add "HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop" /v FontSmoothing /t REG_SZ /d 2 /f
$ env WINEPREFIX=~/.wine/<prefix> wine reg add "HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop" /v FontSmoothingGamma /t REG_DWORD /d 0x578 /f
$ env WINEPREFIX=~/.wine/<prefix> wine reg add "HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop" /v FontSmoothingOrientation /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f
$ env WINEPREFIX=~/.wine/<prefix> wine reg add "HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop" /v FontSmoothingType /t REG_DWORD /d 2 /f
Verify that the changes are applied successfully:
$ env WINEPREFIX=~/.wine/<prefix> wine reg query "HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop" | grep FontSmoothing
