I installed a firestarter razorqt to an old HP Pavilion and with this setup this machine got a second life: it's amazingly fast! (For what i can compare seems even faster than a crunchbang waldorf setup on the same machine. In any case, very very snappy).
Now, i tweaked this setup, substituting the combo openbox/razor-qt by fluxbox. So far, i'm fine with the setup, some tuning and tweaking still needed here and there.
But, i've one big question: Font rendering (hinting) is really poor. So, first i "ixquicked" for fontconfig and found
this nice page (which is very technical and far beyond my linux knowledge
).
I followed the example there (for local.conf) and indeed it's an enormous improvement for the font rendering. With one small disadvantage: Now the cursor block in the terminal window behaves somewhat strange (it's far away from the last letter typed in; i've no idea how to correct that).
Then, i discovered that the small utility lxappearance with the obconf plugin does a great job for fluxbox to. I do not really understand why and how, since it is made for the combo lxde/openbox, but anyway . . .
(is that intentional or caused by a somehow mistaken setup?).
There, thanks to the obconf plugin, you can set the font hinting too. But i realize that in any case the settings in /etc/fontoconfig/local.conf have the precedence. And the example from the arch wiki page seems to set the hinting to full (from my lubuntu times, i remember the advised setting was light instead). Someone more knowledged than me would know how to change set in the local.conf file.
Actually, as a window theme i use waldorf (a slightly corrected theme regard gtk3, but i think that's uninfluent for a qt setup, isn't it?), and nouveKDEGray as icon theme. That's a nice & etshetical setup; only the mouseover contrast is a bit weak. How could that be changed?
Thanks in advance for any pointer!