How To Add Fonts In Ubuntu?

Why do fonts look so awful on Firefox in Ubuntu?

• Do the Ubuntu devs use the terminal to surf the web? Why do fonts look so awful on Firefox while using Ubuntu with a resolution of 1440x900? I've tried adjusting the fonts in Firefox and they still look terrible. Why can't Ubuntu developers make nice looking fonts, such as the perfected fonts in Windows?

• Answer:

  Your problem isn't the fonts - the fonts are perfect, but the display isn't right. You can copy all of the fonts from an XP and a Vista installation - I did this and put them into /usr/share/fonts/ in a folder called mscore - then ran fc-cache and then tried a few out. The only one really worth keeping is Trebuchet - I use that as a font for my conky - digital time display at the bottom of the screen. The other fonts aren't an improvement at all, it's simply the screen rendering - 96dpi or 97dpi? check it out. You're using quite an old version - 8.04 is very old now. With Jaunty, the Xserver sets itself up - it adjusts to the correct dpi of your monitor. I was extremely impressed. It now looks much better than Windows. If you want to find out, I think perhaps your settings are messed up. You can test my idea by doing the following: Open Nautilus browser (ALT + F2, type 'nautilus', hit enter) press CTRL and H to get hidden files showing. Right click, make a NEW folder, name it AAA.hidden Select all of the documents and folders you see with a name starting with a '.' - like '.bashrc' and stuff, drag them into the folder. Now log out from your desktop, or just restart. You should come back to a basic gnome desktop with fonts perfectly adjusted. If you don't - then I strongly suggest that you simply get a Jaunty installation disk and install. You messed it up somehow - because believe me, my fonts are perfect and when I reboot to Windows to play games, they look NASTY. If you use an LCD, just check - it should be automatic, but in Appearance-fonts you should be set up to use Subpixel smoothing with maybe 96dpi (for my monitor) with slight hinting, and select rgb/bgr/vbgr - for my HP it's RGB. Honestly, Firefox and all the other browsers and applications look far better than they used to look even with Ubuntu 8.10 now because the set up is automatic on installation!!! Okay - update - you're using 8.04, probably a pre-install right? Run 'partition editor' and write down details of how your partitions are laid out. If possible, have a separate partition for all of your personal stuff, move it there. You really should look to format ext4 (sooo fast and silent compared to ext3 - I copy at 50MB per sec now, instead of 22mb/sec with NTFS or ext3, and a full filesystem check takes 10 seconds, instead of ten minutes). So move as much stuff you need to a separate partition. Download and burn a Jaunty CD (www.getubuntu.com) and boot that. You can create a USBstartup disk from the system menu - this is so much cooler and faster than a liveCD (silent, fast, and can remember settings) - then install. Set yourself a root partition, maybe 15 up to 20GB (it is hard to make it fill up past 7 or 8GB to be honest) then a /etc partition, only small - less than 4GB, then the rest could be home - but at least 50GB maybe. Then if you're dualbooting you can use NTFS for a shared storage partition (but it's much much faster if you use ext4 for EVERYTHING - my boot up time is 25 seconds and I only hear a single click if I listen carefully to the HDD) I'll bet if you boot from USB your monitor will look amazing - so install Jaunty, it's so much better than 8.10 and for me, I found 8.10 was much much better than 8.04. I started with 7.04 - and really, you have NO idea just how massive the improvements are - they come only a few months apart - 9.04 is like TEN years ahead of 8.04. Go for it - honestly, I had lots of problems with 7.04 and 7.10 - quite a few with 8.04. just one with 8.10 and so far, with 9.04 everything seems to be automated, driver downloads - everything was soooo smooth, it's like a new operating system (nothing like 8.04)