On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 9:09 PM, Marco Calistri wrote:

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Hello,

Until today I was using the famous "namrac repository" in order to obtain a better  font rendering in my system, but today I noticed that such repository is not available anymore on download page.

By googling a bit I understood that now freetype2 is relying on a newer environment "...Harmony LCD Subpixel Rendering technique in freetype2 version 2.8.1 and above..."

Hence I have disabled the "namrac repository" and added the Tumbleweed M17 one:

"https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/M17N/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/"

and updated libfreetype6 and libfreetype6-32bit.

Which hopefully soon enough will land in Factory :P

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But I would like to know if in addition I have to configure something on my homedir in order to get the best font rendering with these new versions.

I mean something as setting up the variable "FREETYPE_PROPERTIES=" and keep using or delete the file suggested for previous truetype rendering as ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf.

YaST actually handles all that pretty well. I hope to get default font rendering and hinting in openSUSE to be set to optimal in the future (lcddefault and hintmedium respectively), which I will submit once freetype with all the MS patented stuff lands in Factory and in Tumbleweed.

Although, I don't know your preference in regards to that, you might want it differently, that's probably why YaST Fonts ships by default in YaST pattern ;)

LCP [Stasiek] https://lcp.world

Hello Stasiek, I have switched now all my previous packages to the versions of "https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/M17N/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/" repo and I noticed a very big differences especially on Monospace fonts which I was using on Thunderbird Firefox and my Terminal. The result was very ugly with large spaced letters... Hence I try to set other fonts and finally I found a good aspect using Consolas for fixed and Cantarell for variable fonts. Anyway I have to adjust other things because some email messages are displayed with large distance among each words. Cheers, -- Marco Calistri Build: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20181022 Kernel: 4.18.15-1-default - Cinnamon 3.8.9 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org

On Tuesday 2018-10-30 22:12, Marco Calistri wrote:

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I have switched now all my previous packages to the versions of "https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/M17N/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/" repo and I noticed a very big differences especially on Monospace fonts which I was using on Thunderbird Firefox and my Terminal.

The result was very ugly with large spaced letters...

Sounds like a (documented) case of https://doc.opensuse.org/release-notes/x86_64/openSUSE/Leap/15.0/#sec.deskto...

Thanks for the input Jan, however the issue was caused by some other stuff. I'm sorry to have not been able to identify what exactly it was! I resolved by revert back all the packages to "repo-oss" which I had previously "duped" by the "M17" repository. I let just the M17 libfreetype packages installed, all the others have been rolled back to "repo-oss". Now the issue is gone! It was pretty ugly: the text was taking more space and numbers were appearing in white and not in black! For example when I was using the M17 packages, accessing Yast fonts the window title was as below: YaST2 - fonts @ inux-turion64.ddns.net (like it should be) YaST2 - fonts @ linux - turion64 . ddns . net (like it was) In addition the digits "64" were displayed in white and not in black and the spaces among the words were double or so, not using normal spacing. Also text in some email (depending the way it was sent: text or html, UTF-8 or ISO) was appearing with words wide spaced each other like this: *For example when I was using the M17 packages , accessing Yast fonts the window title was as below* Regards, -- Marco Calistri Build: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20181029 Kernel: 4.18.15-1-default - Cinnamon 3.8.9 N�����r��y隊Z)z{.���r�+�맲��r��z�^�ˬz��N�(�֜��^� ޭ隊Z)z{.���r�+��0�����Ǩ�