[arch-general] First Time Arch w/ Gnome Installed

[pyther]

On 01/26/2010 02:26 PM, Damien Churchill wrote:
> 2010/1/26 Carlos Williams<carloswill at gmail.com>:
>    
>> This is my 1st time ever installing Arch Linux with GDM / Gnome
>> desktop environment. I did not install 'gnome-extra' package because I
>> don't want all the useless applications. I prefer to only install what
>> I need. I am have been using an Ubuntu 10.4 workstations and got
>> everything working on my new Arch system. It is very fast even
>> installed the latest nVidia drivers from their site. My only issue I
>> have is the fonts look horrible. I did go to 'System>  Preferences>
>> Appearance>  Fonts tab' and set the fonts to 'Sub Pixel Smoothing' for
>> LCD's but I am missing the smoothness and glossiness (Anti Aliasing)
>> that Ubuntu had. My Arch fonts still look very rough and 1993'ish. I
>> don't know what I can do to make my Gnome / Desktop environment appear
>> more polished and cleaner. Do you guys have any suggestions?
>>
>> Do I need a specific WM or special decorative package? I work a lot on
>> my workstation and need it to be pleasing to the eyes. The fonts I
>> have don't make my system look very appealing. I know it sounds stupid
>> but I really like my DE to be pleasing on my eyes since I use if for
>> hours at a time...
>>
>> Thanks for any help!
>>
>>      
> If you open the Fonts tab in the Appearance preferences, and click
> Details, another window opens that allows you to set the font hinting.
> Ubuntu has it set to Slight by default so changing this might help how
> the fonts look. Worth a try at least!
>
> Damien
>    
You might want to also try the cairo-lcd package from aur. 
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16459