Good day Christian and Peter,

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I've finally got KDE 3.1 working but have to say that I'm a little disappointed with the font performance of it on my laptop.

It looks great on the desktop machine, but only marginally better on the laptop (I guess I expected more).

Is there anything I can do to clean it up a bit? I've got the default fonts selected with antialias turned on.

Well, in my experience AA doesn't feel as good on a TFT as it does on a "standard" monitor. So I guess that is no KDE issue. Please correct me if I am wrong here.

I think you are right. I read somewhere that CRTs and LCDs work differently and thus some special techniques to make fonts look good are fairly specialised to each of the technologies. For LCDs sub pixel rendering should be _the_ thing to use, while some AA works best on CRTs. On an LCD sub pixel rendering physically makes the horizontal resolution 3 times as big as the ordinary horizontal pixel resolution. I do not know if KDE or X is capable of using this technique. Best regards :o) Johnny :o)