Ramble On

July 5, 2009

$Liferea Font Rendering The only one thing that didn’t work perfectly since I moved to Fedora 11 is font rendering. After some time playing with Gnome font preferences I got that a 76 dpi resolution and setting the fonts to 12 points made almost everything usable and good looking (I don’t know why GDM is fixed to use 107x107 dpi, and I don’t know how to change this). But two applications keep showing ugly font rendering: Gwibber (fixed with 1.2 release, now I can setup the font size and ignore system preferences! yay!), and Liferea. With Liferea I tried to zoom out the text at first, but it also scales the images, so that was a suboptimal solution. I’ve just found a workaround for the problem: Create a file: $HOME/.liferea_1.6/liferea.css, so the application will load your custom CSS at start up. Put inside: div { font-size: 10pt; } Restart Liferea and enjoy. The default CSS file warns you not to set absolute font sizes, to allow Gnome control default font size from preferences, but I’ve tested different relative values without luck (1.0em is an ugly default, and 0.9em it’s very very small). I don’t know if this is the right direction to fix this, but it works for me.$

Liferea Font Rendering

The only one thing that didn’t work perfectly since I moved to Fedora 11 is font rendering.

After some time playing with Gnome font preferences I got that a 76 dpi resolution and setting the fonts to 12 points made almost everything usable and good looking (I don’t know why GDM is fixed to use 107x107 dpi, and I don’t know how to change this).

But two applications keep showing ugly font rendering: Gwibber (fixed with 1.2 release, now I can setup the font size and ignore system preferences! yay!), and Liferea.

With Liferea I tried to zoom out the text at first, but it also scales the images, so that was a suboptimal solution. I’ve just found a workaround for the problem:

Create a file: $HOME/.liferea_1.6/liferea.css, so the application will load your custom CSS at start up.
Put inside: div { font-size: 10pt; }
Restart Liferea and enjoy.

The default CSS file warns you not to set absolute font sizes, to allow Gnome control default font size from preferences, but I’ve tested different relative values without luck (1.0em is an ugly default, and 0.9em it’s very very small).