Dear puppians,
Here is a pet that will improve font rendering in Wine. If you have a rather standard LCD screen, option 3 will give the best results. The script - which makes use of Xdialog - generates a xxx.reg file for wine in /tmp and silently installs it using regedit. I modified an existing script I found on a Ubuntu forum to make use of GTK widgets and restructured it for logic and clarity. Make certain you have wine installed before you click on this pet. It will generate a winesmooth entry in the Utilities menu.
With kind regards,
vovchik
PS. I tested it on various versions of wine and it works. I don't know about 1.2rc1 yet, because I can't get that version to work properly on my system. The font rendering procedure has changed in 1.2 and makes use of X-based fontconfig settings. In that case, these reg entries may simply be ignored by wine.
Wine font smoothing gui
Wine font smoothing gui
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Dear Jake,
I am glad to hear that it works and is useful. I personally hate ugly fonts and have bad eyesight to boot, so I am always on the lookout for readability enhancements or tweaks. I think it is a good idea to do this kind of font smoothing tweak in a normal gui, since many people, particularly those new to Unix/Linux, don't like the terminal or feel a bit intimidated by it.
Thanks for the response.
With kind regards,
vovchik
PS. I have spent ages tweaking all the usual unix font config files, so one of these days I will make a gui for configuring those files, too.
I am glad to hear that it works and is useful. I personally hate ugly fonts and have bad eyesight to boot, so I am always on the lookout for readability enhancements or tweaks. I think it is a good idea to do this kind of font smoothing tweak in a normal gui, since many people, particularly those new to Unix/Linux, don't like the terminal or feel a bit intimidated by it.
Thanks for the response.
With kind regards,
vovchik
PS. I have spent ages tweaking all the usual unix font config files, so one of these days I will make a gui for configuring those files, too.