Linux – How to get font smoothing to work in Firefox under Linux

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I'm using Arch Linux with KDE 4.6 and Firefox 5.0, and I had to install a GTK+ theme to make apps like Firefox look nicer.

Now, I have another problem—Firefox doesn't use font smoothing on sites, even though KDE itself uses font smoothing. I didn't see anything related to that in settings.

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I've solved the problem by removing ttf-ms-fonts and ttf-vista-fonts and installing higher quality fonts (ttf-ubuntu-font-family and otf-texgyre) from the AUR.

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Ubuntu – How to make KDE and other non-GNOME apps inherit the Ubuntu theme

Check QGtkStyle, a project to create a GTK+ layer for Qt-based applications (like KDE) running on GTK2-based desktops (like Gnome).

There are other ideas and scripts in the discussion on this topic at Ubuntu Brainstorm: Idea #1744: GNOME themes should affect Qt themes, and more of them in this discussion Idea #1714: GNOME QT integration (and the numerous duplicate ideas gathered under this question).

One of the noteworthy attempts is UniformUI, which attempts to automate configuration of Qt settings to match the current Gtk+ style, partially using QtCurve and QGtkStyle to achieve this.

Is it possible to change the look and feel of remote X applications running under Xming

Just install gtk-chtheme

$ sudo apt-get install gtk-chtheme

and call it in a terminal opened in Xming

$ gtk-chtheme

Also, you can use LXAppearance:

$ sudo apt-get install lxappearance

and call it as

$ lxappearance

(LXAppearance is, technically, part of LXDE, but the configuration file it creates is generic for GTK 2.0)

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