[Nix-dev] Fonts not looking good with XFCE

[Thomas Tuegel]

On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 11:46 AM, Pierre Allix
<pierre.allix.work at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I really like the ideas behing Nix and so I'm evaluating NixOS. I download
> the virtuabox appliance and installed XFCE.
>
> I installed the Ubuntu fonts and configured XFCE to use it, and also
> installed the Inconsolata fonts for Emacs.
> The fonts are bit blurry in Firefox, in Emacs they don't look good and in
> general they dont look as good as on Xubuntu or Linux Mint Debian Editon.
>
> Here is a screenshot:
>
> https://i.imgur.com/72HlF9d.png?1
>
> I also tried the Awesome window manager, I've got the same problem.
>
>
> How can I improve the rendering to look as good as on Xubuntu?
>
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Good looking fonts are somewhat of a work-in-progress in NixOS. There
are some changes [1] to appear in the upcoming release (14.12) which
will make the default rendering much better and (more importantly!)
make the font rendering much easier for the user to customize. So, my
answer to you question is: wait a few weeks :)

1. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/5194

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Thomas Tuegel