How to enable subpixel font smoothing in Wine 1.1.12
I just updated Ubuntu and got the latest version of Wine, v1.1.12, which apparently came with a big new feature, “Support for subpixel font rendering”. Unfortunately, as soon as I opened EditPlus 2, the one Windows application I depend on Wine for, all my fonts were jaggy!
After a little Googling around, I found a bug report, #16729, which described the problem exactly, and also contained a registry fix somewhat buried within the comments. So I figured I’d reprint them here.
- Create a temporary file with the necessary registry settings:
echo 'REGEDIT4 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop] "FontSmoothing"="2" "FontSmoothingType"=dword:00000002 "FontSmoothingGamma"=dword:00000578 "FontSmoothingOrientation"=dword:00000001 ' > ~/wine_fontsmoothing.reg
- Add it to the registry:
regedit ~/wine_fontsmoothing.reg
- Delete the temporary file:
rm ~/wine_fontsmoothing.reg
4 comments
John
I don’t really know how I stumbled upon this article, but thank you. I’ve been looking for this forever!
TiGR
There is an easier way to do it.
tommy
solved my problem perfectly. thanks.
Dominick
I support the easier way to do it. Worked fantastically when this didn’t. I appreciate the attempt, however.