[AuckLUG] Selectively Disable Anti-Aliasing

[Fuad Tabba]

Hi,

I'm new to this list, but not new to Linux. Been a Linux user for quiet some
years now and I finally decided to install it on my laptop, had a hard time
a few years back with getting Linux setup on a laptop but I've recently
installed Kubuntu 7.04 and everything is working fine - except for one thing
which I'm having a hard time with which is anti-aliasing.

Here's the thing, on my laptop some fonts look good with anti-aliasing,
others look good without. It also depends on the size of the font, smaller
fonts generally don't go well with anti-aliasing. I know how to disable
anti-aliasing for a certain font range, but that's not really enough. I'd
like to, for example, be able to disable it completely for monospaced fonts,
for Arial smaller than 8. However, keep it for Sans fonts above size 9.

I know that the fonts.conf is the file that I can use to do these sorts of
things; I tried to play around with it, read the relevant man page and
googled around to no avail. Was wondering if anyone on this list has any
pointers for me, something which can describe how to manipulate this file.

The reason why anti-aliasing doesn't work well sometimes is that certain
fonts look fuzzy with it and difficult to read. Played around with subpixel
hinting but still...

Any tips in general? Certain fonts that would be recommended for a laptop
(with an LCD screen obviously)?

Cheers,
/Fuad