[CentOS] Alternative GUI

Fri Sep 30 06:29:43 UTC 2016
Greg Bailey <gbailey at lxpro.com>

On 09/29/2016 11:21 PM, Sorin Srbu wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
>> Behalf Of Greg Bailey
>> Sent: den 30 september 2016 04:26
>> To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org>
>> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Alternative GUI
>>
>> Only additional thing I did was to install the "nux" repo, along with
>> the infinality font rpms, which drastically improved font rendering.
>> For some reason, the default C7 desktop never looked as good as the
>> default C6 desktop until I installed:
>>
>> fontconfig-infinality-1-20120615_1.noarch
>> freetype-infinality-2.4.12-2.20130514_01.el7.nux.1.x86_64
> Thanks for the hint!
>
> Is there however something fishy with the
> freetype-infinality-2.4.12-2.20130514_01.el7.nux.1.x86_64?
> It seems it cannot be found in the nux-dextop repo.
>

I hadn't noticed that it disappeared.

https://www.centos.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=55936

looks relevant, but I haven't experimented with "freetype-freeworld", 
whatever that is...  the freetype-infinality RPM is apparently still 
available via the link posted in that forum.

-Greg