Fix GNOME Smooth Font Issue in FireFox/IceWeasel

November 6, 2015
Linux, PC
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Again after moving in with GNOME and set my system fonts which went cool, my Firefox still looked messy 🙁 But the below tweak is gonna fix it 🙂

Create this or edit ~/.fonts.conf and add this to it

<fontconfig>
   <match target="font" >
      <edit name="rgba" mode="assign"><const>rgb</const></edit>
      <edit name="hinting" mode="assign"><bool>true</bool></edit>
      <edit name="antialias" mode="assign"><bool>true</bool></edit>
      <edit name="autohint" mode="assign"><bool>false</bool></edit>
      <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle"><const>hintslight</const></edit>
   </match>
</fontconfig>

Create ~/.Xresources and add

Xft.lcdfilter:  lcddefault
Xft.hintstyle:  hintslight

Now run
```
xrdb -merge ~/Xresource
```

Restart Firefox 🙂

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James John

Software Engineer