HOWTO install infinality font-settings for Debian

[hadrons123]

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.

1. Clone the git repo

git clone https://github.com/chenxiaolong/Debian-Packages.git
cd Debian-Packages/

2. Install the build dependencies. Run the following
command and install the packages it lists using apt-get/synaptic/etc.

cd freetype-infinality/
dpkg-checkbuilddeps
cd ../fontconfig-infinality/
dpkg-checkbuilddeps

3. Build the packages:

cd ../freetype-infinality/
./build.sh
cd ../fontconfig-infinality/
./build.sh

4. Install the deb files:

cd ..
sudo dpkg -i freetype-infinality/*.deb fontconfig-infinality/*.deb

You'll need to reboot after installing the deb files. Enjoy the better
looking fonts!

Thanks to Xiao-Long Chen.

I have linked the debian binaries for some who don't prefer to build it on your system.
Its amd64 based packages.
For wheezy
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/106654446/infin ... -1_all.deb
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/106654446/infin ... -1_all.deb
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/106654446/infin ... _amd64.deb
For Jessie:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/106 ... -2_all.deb
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/106 ... -3_all.deb
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/106 ... _amd64.deb
Download these packages and install with dpkg -i *.deb

Post install there are some font-config options provided by infinality which can be optionally set to preferred style using

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 bash /etc/fonts/infinality/infctl.sh setstyle

.

More info for setting different styles:
http://www.webupd8.org/2013/06/better-f ... -with.html

[bwat47]

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.

[hadrons123]

Do you see any error messages in your bash terminal after you input your commands?

[bwat47]

haven't seen any errors so far, do any type of commands in particular generate them?

[hadrons123]

If you don't see errors, its OK. Its been dicussed already in this thread too.

[hadrons123]

If you don't see errors, its OK. Its been dicussed already in this http://www.infinality.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=206&p=1974&e=1974d too.

[kcanbe]

Subpixel-hinting and Font-smoothing

http://wiki.debian.org/Fonts#Infinality_for_Debian

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...



$HOME/.fonts.conf

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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
 <match target="font">
  <edit mode="assign" name="hinting" >
   <bool>true</bool>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font" >
  <edit mode="assign" name="autohint" >
   <bool>true</bool>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font">
  <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle" >
  <const>hintslight</const>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font">
  <edit mode="assign" name="rgba" >
   <const>rgb</const>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font">
  <edit mode="assign" name="antialias" >
   <bool>true</bool>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font">
   <edit mode="assign" name="lcdfilter">
   <const>lcddefault</const>
   </edit>
 </match>
</fontconfig>

[hadrons123]

Still not as smooth as infinality.
Thanks for the input, anyway.
http://postimg.org/image/3unepzo9n/full/

[kcanbe]

Infinality is clearly better, but look how close native Debian (with a proper fonts.conf) is to Infinality ...

[hadrons123]

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.

[bwat47]

EDIT: NVM

[bwat47]

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:

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/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:

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source /etc/default/freetype-infinality

DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH=$(dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_MULTIARCH)

if [[ "${INFINALITY}" == true ]]; then
  EXISTING=$(echo ${LD_PRELOAD} | grep "freetype.so" | grep -v "infinality" | wc -l)
  if [[ "${EXISTING}" == 0 ]]; then
    export LD_PRELOAD="/usr/lib/${DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH}/freetype-infinality/libfreetype.so.6.8.1:${LD_PRELOAD}"
  fi
fi

and I checked /etc/default and /etc/default/freetype-infinality does exist and is set to true...

I tried purging and reinstalling the packages but it didn't help.

[shirish]

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

[hadrons123]

You are free to adopt and maintain if you are interested.

[Loafers]

build is outdated fyi