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This is a guide how to install Infinality font settings for Debian testing and unstable.
The steps given here are provided by the package maintainer Xiao-Long Chen at github.
Make sure you have the development packages as needed.
thank you for the guide, I did it in wheezy and it worked great infinality font rendering is essential to me, can't stand using any linux distro without it.
A lot of things about the cairo package has changed recently in wheezy and unstable which have brought almost the same font setup to Debian (But not Squeeze or old) but you have to set it up to your liking. You can create a .fonts.conf file to any user account home folder to set this up. Patching and rebuilding of Cairo packages are not needed any more.
Here's a fonts file that works very well without infinality if anyone wants to go the native Debian way...
When you have higher resolution screen with more pixel density you can make a clear difference. Even though adding just a .fonts.conf file is easy. The benefits of infinality on your eyes are clearly better.
I've starting having a problem with this out of the blue. It no longer seems to set the xft settings correctly on boot (it now follows the gnome font settings, previously it would always set xsettings to full hinting per infinality-settings.sh). And I noticed this occuring in my xsession-errors which seems related:
/etc/gdm3/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
/etc/gdm3/Xsession: 1: /etc/profile.d/freetype-infinality.sh: source: not found
/etc/gdm3/Xsession: 5: /etc/profile.d/freetype-infinality.sh: [[: not found
I checked the freetype-infinality.sh script which has this:
Hi all,
I couldn't find either an RFP (Request for Package) or an ITP (Intent to Package) of infanility. I dunno what license is it under but would be nice if there was either of the two things.
Courtesy: wnpp.debian.net
Intel Dual-Core CPU E5400 (soc 775) @ 2.70GHz, onboard Intel G33, Asus MB P5KPL-AM IN (Intel G31), D-Link 2750u modem+router, 64-bit Debian Testing, Mate 1.26
I didn't try wheezy recently, but prebuilt binaries for jessie works fine for me. For some reason XFCE font rendering doesn't work as expected in jessie.
Edit:
I had to adjust the font settings in XFCE with slight hinting which seems to solve my rendering issues.
Last edited by hadrons123 on 2013-12-18 10:10, edited 2 times in total.
hadrons123 wrote:I didn't try wheezy recently, but prebuilt binaries for jessie works fine for me. For some reason XFCE font rendering doesn't work as expected in jessie.
i'm an idiot — didn't notice the new binaries in your original post. works fine now!
I assumed that infinality settings are the best and didn't see a need for setstyle option to set it up for different option. I shall edit my post as you suggest for the sake of users.