Font Rendering - Mac vs Ubuntu

Re:Font Rendering - Mac vs Ubuntu by mmariani on Wednesday October 10, 2012 @03:30PM (#4637772)

Are you sure? It appears not to work on Lion.

  2012-10-10 21:29:32.922 defaults[24228:707] 
  Domain AppleFontSmoothing does not exist

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Re:Font Rendering - Mac vs Ubuntu by jasomill on Wednesday October 10, 2012 @04:21PM (#4637989)

Interesting. Looks like a bug unrelated to font smoothing, though: not only is the domain in the command

  defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain AppleFontSmoothing -int 1

NSGlobalDomain (aliased to "-g" and "-globalDomain" per the man page) rather than AppleFontSmoothing, writes to nonexistent defaults shouldn't fail:

  jtm@socrates ~ $ defaults -currentHost find Corbomite
  2012-10-10 16:04:05.566 defaults[2569:707] No domain, key, nor value containing 'Corbomite'
  jtm@socrates ~ $ defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain CorbomiteDeviceTimeout -int 1
  jtm@socrates ~ $ defaults -currentHost find Corbomite
  Found 1 keys in domain 'Apple Global Domain': {
      CorbomiteDeviceTimeout = 1;
  }

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Re:Font Rendering - Mac vs Ubuntu by arunoda on Wednesday October 10, 2012 @03:40PM (#4637803)

I'm on Lion too. It works for me. Look here - http://osxdaily.com/2012/06/09/mac-screen-blurry-optimize-tr...

I steal it from there.

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Re:Font Rendering - Mac vs Ubuntu by cpeterso on Wednesday October 10, 2012 @04:29PM (#4638031)

How can you tell if it is working? I don't see any difference (even after `killall Finder`).

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