[Nix-dev] Fonts not looking good with XFCE

[Pierre Allix]

Oh I see, a sort of Christmas gift :-).

Thanks, keep up the great work!

On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 7:46 PM, Thomas Tuegel <ttuegel at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
> --
> Thomas Tuegel
>
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