Re: Turning off antialiasing

[David Kastrup]

Oliver Scholz <alkibiades@gmx.de> writes:

> Anselm Helbig <anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com> writes:
>
>>> > That being said, you could also play with your display settings:
>>> > enable sub-pixel rendering and cranking up your font hinting results
>>> > in less blurry fonts. On my ubuntu box, gnome-appearance-properties
>>> > has a font tab where you can change these settings. 
>>> [...]
>>> 
>>> It seems that my Ubuntu is way, way too old.
>>
>> Really? And my colleagues poke fun at be because I'm still using
>> Hardy. 8-)
>
> Tell them you know someone who still uses Edgy Eft.
>
> No kidding. I know I should upgrade -- if only to avoid being mocked
> --, but it'd take half a day until everything is configured again the
> way it should, and I dread that boring half day.

No, that's when you upgrade to the next version.  When upgrading more
than that, stuff goes downhill.


-- 
David Kastrup