Get Smoother Anti-Aliasing on Ubuntu

 

Even if you tweak the font settings in Ubuntu some text still looks a little jaggy compared to OS X. You can make your fonts smoother though like this:

Go to your home directory and open up the file .fonts.conf (it's a hidden file; if you can't see it choose View < Show Hidden Files in Nautilus). Replace the current contents with:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
    <match target="font">
        <edit name="autohint" mode="assign">
            <bool>true</bool>
        </edit>
    </match>
</fontconfig>

Save the file; the fonts will change once you restart the X server, log out and back in again or restart.

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