rhel 7 tweak tool - desktop fonts

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Hi group,

This is just some before and after pictures of the font settings modified with Tweak Tool in rhel 7 to resolve some kerning issues with the default font selections in rhel 7. I wanted to upload some examples but could not as a reply post so I started this thread.

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bl Active Contributor 147 points
29 September 2014 6:49 PM

The screenshots are very helpful. The next step should be to get images which compare text in 7.0 to text in 6.5. There are people here who earn a living by staring at Linux text all day. Is it really only two of us who are concerned?

Alex Alexzander's picture Active Contributor 210 points
29 September 2014 9:22 PM

Seems odd, right? Well, with the Tweak Tool the problem is pretty much solved. Now I wonder when we'll get the Gnome 3 update to the new current version. Fedora gets in with Fedora 21. Hopefully this issue is also resolved in that release.

Duncan Innes's picture Guru 2135 points
30 September 2014 8:38 AM

I'm one of those who stare at a Linux workstation all day for a living. I've not noticed it before, but possibly due to the fact that I always set my fonts smaller than the default.

I'm not at my RHEL 6 workstation at the moment, but I think I use 10pt for everything except fixed width, which I set to 8 or 9. My setup runs over a pretty thin analogue VGA cable (not allowed to change) to a nice 24" 1600x1200 monitor, so the VGA connection does some "built-in" antialiasing for me.

My RHEL 7 laptop was already set to 8pt for monospace and 10pt for everything else. The biggest change I notice with text is when changing the Hinting to something other than Medium. Medium seems perfect to me - with all the other options looking off whack. Maybe that's just my eyes though.

From the examples given, there's a clear problem.

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Alex Alexzander's picture Active Contributor 210 points
30 September 2014 3:24 PM

Further testing shows if I keep the original font in tweak tool and just completely remove the "hinting" setting the default font looks just fine at its default 11pt size.