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HOWTO install infinality font-settings for Debian

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HOWTO install infinality font-settings for Debian

#1 Post by 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
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Re: HOWTO install infinality for Debian Wheezy i386, amd64

#2 Post by 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.

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Re: HOWTO install infinality for Debian Wheezy i386, amd64

#3 Post by hadrons123 »

Do you see any error messages in your bash terminal after you input your commands?
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#4 Post by bwat47 »

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

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Re: HOWTO install infinality for Debian Wheezy i386, amd64

#5 Post by hadrons123 »

If you don't see errors, its OK. Its been dicussed already in this thread too.
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Re: HOWTO install infinality for Debian Wheezy i386, amd64

#6 Post by hadrons123 »

If you don't see errors, its OK. Its been dicussed already in this http://www.infinality.net/forum/viewtop ... 974&e=1974d too.
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Re: HOWTO install infinality for Debian Wheezy i386, amd64

#7 Post by 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...

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$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>

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Re: HOWTO install infinality for Debian Wheezy i386, amd64

#8 Post by hadrons123 »

Still not as smooth as infinality.
Thanks for the input, anyway.
http://postimg.org/image/3unepzo9n/full/
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Re: HOWTO install infinality for Debian Wheezy i386, amd64

#9 Post by kcanbe »

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

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Re: HOWTO install infinality for Debian Wheezy i386, amd64

#10 Post by 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.
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#11 Post by bwat47 »

EDIT: NVM

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#12 Post by 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.

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Re: HOWTO install infinality for Debian Wheezy i386, amd64

#13 Post by 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.

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Re: HOWTO install infinality for Debian Wheezy i386, amd64

#14 Post by hadrons123 »

You are free to adopt and maintain if you are interested.
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Re: HOWTO install infinality for Debian Wheezy i386, amd64

#15 Post by Loafers »

build is outdated fyi

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Re: HOWTO install infinality for Debian Wheezy i386, amd64

#16 Post by hadrons123 »

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.
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Re: HOWTO install infinality for Debian Wheezy i386, amd64

#17 Post by Loafers »

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!

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Re: HOWTO install infinality for Debian Wheezy i386, amd64

#18 Post by Loafers »

Visually I am not experiencing any problems, but the console constantly spams the following:

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ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib//freetype-infinality/libfreetype.so.6.8.1' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
Anybody else experiencing this?

EDIT:

Okay I found this thread.

I checked /etc/profile.d/freetype-infinality and it has the necessary line:

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export LD_PRELOAD="/usr/lib/${DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH}/freetype-infinality/libfreetype.so.6.8.1:${LD_PRELOAD}"
However, I just noticed the error output says "/usr/lib//..." (two slashes); furthermore, /usr/lib/freetype-infinality does not even exist at all...

Any ideas suggestions :D?

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Re: HOWTO install infinality for Debian Wheezy i386, amd64

#19 Post by rigr »

Loafers wrote:Visually I am not experiencing any problems, but the console constantly spams the following:

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ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib//freetype-infinality/libfreetype.so.6.8.1' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
Anybody else experiencing this?

EDIT:

Okay I found this thread.

I checked /etc/profile.d/freetype-infinality and it has the necessary line:

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export LD_PRELOAD="/usr/lib/${DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH}/freetype-infinality/libfreetype.so.6.8.1:${LD_PRELOAD}"
However, I just noticed the error output says "/usr/lib//..." (two slashes); furthermore, /usr/lib/freetype-infinality does not even exist at all...

Any ideas suggestions :D?
I had to install the package dpkg-dev (which contains dpkg-architecture) to solve this problem. Try that :)

Btw, hadrons123, maybe you could add that people can run this command to configure the Infinality style:

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

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Re: HOWTO install infinality font-settings for Debian

#20 Post by hadrons123 »

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.
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