Tao Linux and fonts on Fedora

[Klaus-Peter Schrage]

Chong Yu Meng wrote:

> 
> The trouble here is that fonts look different on CRT and LCD monitors.
> The default settings for RedHat/Fedora look good on CRT, but on my
> Viewsonic, it looks really bad. A discussion of the issues can be found
> here : http://jmason.org/howto/subpixel.html
> 
> Even between LCD screens, I have noticed some differences. On Dell LCD
> screens (I think they are actually OEM from LG), at lower resolutions,
> the picture is blurry. On my Viewsonic, the graphics are sharp and
> beautiful, but text leaves a lot to be desired for default settings (for
> Fedora, anyway). You will need to tweak it quite a bit to get it to
> display nicely (without hurting your eyes). When I installed Tao Linux,
> however, the text looked good from the beginning. So, I'm thinking that
> the default settings for Tao may be more suited for LCD screens -- just
> my very subjective opinion though.

Some LCD monitors (like my Belinea 10 17 15) are arranging their RGB 
sub-pixels in a vertical order. I only got sub-pixel hinting working in 
a satisfactory way until I did a respective setting in the KDE control 
center (see under Appearance & Themes | Fonts | Use anti-aliasing for 
fonts | configure ...).
BTW, there is a little X application called xmag, working like a 
magnifying glass, with which you may check how fonts are displayed on 
the screen.
Klaus