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Since I've upgraded my system to Ubuntu 11.10, Unity's global menu and search are having font rendering problems (no anti-aliasing, bad font sizes). No problem in sub-menus.

The font rendering problems do not appear on a newly created user. Just the ones which were existing before the upgrade.

What can I do to solve the rendering problems ?

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You can adjust the font settings using gnome-tweak-tool Install gnome-tweak-tool. Do note that installing gnome-tweak-tool also installs gnome-shell.

To install gnome-tweak-tool, you can run the following command in a terminal:

sudo apt-get install gnome-tweak-tool

After installing it, open the tool and go to Fonts. The configurations that you should be changing are 'Hinting' and 'Antialiasing'.

Information about the options available:

The type of antialiasing to use when rendering fonts. Possible values are: "none" for no antialiasing, "grayscale" for standard grayscale antialiasing, and "rgba" for subpixel antialiasing (LCD screens only).

The type of hinting to use when rendering fonts. Possible values are: "none" for no hinting, "slight" for basic, "medium" for moderate, and "full" for maximum hinting (may cause distortion of letter forms).

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  • Thank you for this answer. I'll try to solve the problem this way on the next computer I'll upgrade. The 3 machines I've upgraded until now have had the problem. Meanwhile, I solved it by removing "~/.config/dconf/user" to completely reset the parameters. It is quite radical and some parameters must be reconfigured manually but it works...
    – Golboth
    Commented Oct 17, 2011 at 21:09
  • Jokerdino's solution doesn't improve the antialiasing problem. Removing ~/.config/dconf/user does.
    – Case
    Commented Oct 23, 2011 at 2:39
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    From the Ubuntu forums [1], another solution using dconf-editor (from the dconf-tools package): modify the org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.xsettings key [1] ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=11322965
    – David Planella
    Commented Oct 23, 2011 at 9:49
  • This solution lead me to unity-tweak-tool, which does the same for unity (at least on 16.10)
    – Frédéric Grosshans
    Commented Oct 23, 2016 at 16:38
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I have found that to resolve this antialiasing problem you need to 

rm ~/.config/dconf/user

In my case I had also lost the background and icons order, but it fixed after a reboot.

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  • +1 Worked fine for me with a logout on 14.04. Doesn't appear to have caused any other issues with icon ordering etc.
    – Darren Lewis
    Commented Nov 9, 2014 at 20:08
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    In my case, I lost all my icons, desktop settings (keyboard, mouse, etc) but a reboot didn't fixed it. Fortunately I backed up the file before removing. I would strongly suggest against removing the file.
    – dimuthu
    Commented May 13, 2015 at 12:00
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Try to set the Text Scaling Factor to something different from 1.0 (e.g. 1.1 for me is pretty good) and leave Antialiasing set to Rgba.

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