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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I run Redhat 9.0 at work, using KDE 3.1 as supplied. It’s
great – best thing since the last best thing etc. I think, time to jump
the MS ship at home too, and it’s still great except that all the fonts
are multi-coloured. I have a TFT panel (driven from a DVI connection) at home
and CRT at work, and whereas all my fonts are sharp and black on the CRT, they
are sharper but multi-coloured on the TFT. I’ve tried the various
sub-pixel hinting options to no avail. I’ve tried the MS fonts from the
windows partition, which gives a small improvement, but not much.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The worst case is running konsole with a Courier New font –
letters like I,L etc are only 1 pixel wide (or look like it) and that pixel is
coming out red and not black (with or without sub-pixeling in any of its
guises). It’s black when not anti-aliasing, but everything else looks
rubbish.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Running konsole under Gnome is fine (same fonts), although I
can get it to have similar problems (but still not as bad) by fiddling with the
gnome font settings (of which there are many more than for KDE). The best
result is with greyscale anti-aliasing, medium hinting (and obviously no sub-pixeling).</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I want to use KDE as I do at work, but this is a real bind
and reminds me of why MS has so many users – it’s still so much
easier. It’s particularly irritating to have to systems set up the same
with different results, purely due to the monitor type!</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Anyone got any ideas.</span></font></p>
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