How to adjust fonts on Xubuntu

[Abhimanyusuta]

Hi,
Everyone has seen the the fonts look on Xubunut is really not good. I want settings which you can see in Windows Vista or 7. The font have smooth edges and nice look. Does this are possible in Xubuntu version. Can I add Microsoft Fonts to this Linux version. How to do that. And the last thing I need is a file comparison software which can highlight the changes in different files.

[Raine]

Despite the great satisfaction that I have always bought X ubuntu, it is true that the font rendering by default is clearly ugly. Get a beautiful record, however, is not very complicated. You can use anti-aliasing for that. The anti-aliasing (or smoothing) is a technique to reduce pixelization (staircase effect) creating color gradients along the edges. The disadvantage of this technique is its high cost in terms of computation for the processor, but given the power of current machines are few users who will see a difference in terms of speed.

[Sam.D]

Here is how you can enable anti aliasing. To enable anti-aliasing under XFCE (window manager by default in Xubuntu) go to Applications> Settings> User Interface. At the bottom of the window you will see three check boxes. They are Use anti-aliasing for fonts, Using smoothing and Use sub-pixel. Check these 3 boxes and close the window. In my case, changes were implemented immediately, perhaps you should reboot for this to take effect.

[ZeDaX]

You can install Microsoft fonts on Ubuntu. You can enjoy the advantage of having the classic Arial, Georgia, Trebuchet, the Times New Roman, etc. To get those fonts on your linux machine open the terminal and type - sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts. And done, just reboot your system once and then re-check the fonts back again. You can see those in your machine.

[ThoMas321]

ColorDiff is a very useful utility, well known in the Unix / Linux: It compares two files and display the differences found. But the output generated by colordiff, black and white, are not always very readable. For a little more comfort, here colordiff, allowing you to put a little color and to see a little clearer. Colordiff uses ANSI color and therefore will not work in color if they are available.

[Macarenas]

If you want colordiff on your computer then typs - apt-get install colordiff . This will will do. The project site offers course the source if you use another distribution, or even Mac OS, the project seems to have been ported to the Apple system. As mentioned previously, the use of colordiff Diff do nothing in the diff. You can therefore use the command - colordiff file1 file 2 to view differences between two files on screen. Similarly, you can also make a last classic and the piper to colordiff result - diff-u file1 file2 | colordiff.