From: "Rich Gauszka" 

Yep . I guess that GNOME 2 and KDE can use sub-pixel font positioning out
of box. It's just getting the distros to include it as a setup button.  It
makes a major difference on my LCD monitor

Gibson had a nice explanation for it on his website http://grc.com/ctwhat.htm
The following web page was a good Linux refernece for it
http://jmason.org/howto/subpixel.html


"Jeff Shultz"  wrote in message
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> Rich Gauszka wrote:
>
> > Font smoothing  ( XP's Cleartype) really makes a difference also. Red
Hat
> > 9.0 and Mandrake Powerpack 9.1 seem to have recognized this with some
> > truly readable fonts on an LCD monitor. Hopefully the remaining distros
> > will also focus on this ( SUSE 8.2 etc ).
> >
> >  A pet peeve -  with applications Opera for Linux has some of the
ugliest
> > out of the box fonts viewed on an LCD monitor that I have ever seen.
> >
> Basically everyone needs to accept XFT as a standard - and support it.
> --
> Jeff Shultz
>

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