How do I enable font anti-aliasing in Wine?

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Fonts in some Wine applications (Word 2007 for example) are heavily aliased. How do I turn on anti aliasing for Wine applications?

score 33 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 28 '13 at 10:57

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The easiest way is through winetricks

mkdir ~/bin
cd ~/bin
wget http://winetricks.org/winetricks
chmod +x ./winetricks

winetricks fontsmooth-rgb

In newer version of winetricks the command to use is

winetricks settings fontsmooth=rgb

There are other LCD pixel orders available. You can read about them and the rest of the impressive winetricks feature list on its WineHQ site.

edited Jun 28 '13 at 10:57

stephenmyall

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answered Mar 08 '11 at 18:10

Oli

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winetricks is also available through apt – RolandiXor Mar 08 '11 at 18:28
@Roland it is but I can't attest to which version it is. Though the logic doesn't apply to something as simple as this, `winetricks` is one of those things you want to keep as recent as possible if you're following install guides that use it heavily. – Oli Mar 08 '11 at 18:38
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The wine ppa has updated versions :D, so you can use that as an additional option ^^ – RolandiXor Mar 08 '11 at 18:40

score 7 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 24 '17 at 09:55

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Just adding details to Oli's answer for those who need it: what winetricks settings fontsmooth=rgb actually does is creating and importing a registry file with the following content:

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]
"FontSmoothing"="2"
"FontSmoothingGamma"=dword:00000578
"FontSmoothingOrientation"=dword:00000001
"FontSmoothingType"=dword:00000002

Once you saved it as fontsmoothing.reg you can import it with:

wine regedit fontsmoothing.reg

answered Sep 24 '17 at 09:55

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why isn't it the default? – Jay _silly_evarlast_ Wren Nov 11 '17 at 22:30
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As of today there are several options for `fontsmooth`, namely `bgr`, `disable`, `gray` and `rgb` . Default values are `"FontSmoothing"=2` , `"FontSmoothingGamma"=dword:0x0` , `"FontSmoothingOrientation"=dword:0x1`, `"FontSmoothingType"=dword:0x1`, so only `"FontSmoothingGamma"` and `"FontSmoothingType"` get updated in the option **fontsmooth=rgb** – Pau Coma Ramirez Feb 14 '21 at 11:20

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 31 '19 at 23:46

An alternative method with no relation on a temp file:

$ env WINEPREFIX=~/.wine/<prefix> wine reg add "HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop" /v FontSmoothing /t REG_SZ /d 2 /f

$ env WINEPREFIX=~/.wine/<prefix> wine reg add "HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop" /v FontSmoothingGamma /t REG_DWORD /d 0x578 /f

$ env WINEPREFIX=~/.wine/<prefix> wine reg add "HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop" /v FontSmoothingOrientation /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f

$ env WINEPREFIX=~/.wine/<prefix> wine reg add "HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop" /v FontSmoothingType /t REG_DWORD /d 2 /f

Verify that the changes are applied successfully:

$ env WINEPREFIX=~/.wine/<prefix> wine reg query "HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop" | grep FontSmoothing

How do I enable font anti-aliasing in Wine?

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