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How do I enable font anti-aliasing in Wine?
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
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How do I disable font antialiasing in some apps? (E.g. VLC, Telegram, Viber)
I had the same issue in Linux Mint 19.2 with VLC and Chromium not respecting Cinnamon desktop settings for antialiasing or any of the user space configuration options that I wasted a lot of time with. ...
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Full font hinting not working in Ubuntu 18.04
I found a solution to the problem linked to in this reddit post.
Add the following line to /etc/environment as root:
FREETYPE_PROPERTIES="truetype:interpreter-version=35 cff:no-stem-darkening=1 ...
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Skype for linux blurred fonts on xenial
Is indeed an electron app... I found that launching it with this command line options the rendering looks better.
skypeforlinux --disable-gpu --enable-lcd-text
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Disabling the anti-aliasing for a specific font with user's fonts.conf
[I know this question is 5 years old, but it still appears in search engines.]
I just made a .fonts.conf file in the Home directory. It worked right away in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
(Replace the font names ...
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Disable anti-aliasing in google chrome or firefox
I don't have knowledge about Chrome but you can disable anti-aliasing in Firefox with;
Go to about:config
Search for gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.rendering_mode change it to 1 (ref: https://...
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How do I disable font antialiasing in some apps? (E.g. VLC, Telegram, Viber)
I'm glad that worked for you. Your comment about Evince intrigued and bothered me. Just when you think you've cracked something...
I've now found that xreader, the default pdf reader in Mint 19.3, ...
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Per-monitor font hinting
Yes, you can set font hinting differently for each display in Xorg, the display server used by most Linux distributions.
To set font hinting for each display, you need to modify the Xorg configuration ...
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How do I enable font anti-aliasing in Wine?
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/&...
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PDF viewer with subpixel rendering
Firefox can render PDF via pdf.js - and uses excellent subpixel rendering.
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Ubuntu guest 15.10 and 14.04 font rendering issue on a high-resolution monitor
Have you tried running it on full screen or seamless instead of scaled (Virtual Box Settings, not Ubuntu settings)?
If you are still getting badly scaled fonts when running full screen, see the ...
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Setting different subpixel rendering on different monitors
Another solution is to set the antialiasing to grayscale instead of subpixel given all your LCD screens no longer have the same pixel orientation.
I did that with gnome-tweaks -> fonts -> ...
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