Bad font anti-aliasing in Ubuntu

Bad font anti-aliasing in Ubuntu I'm switching from Fedora 8 to Ubuntu 9.04, and I can't seem to get it to get a good font anti-aliasing to work. It seems that Ubuntu's fontconfig tries to keep characters in integral pixel widths. This makes text more difficult to read, when 1 pixel is too thin and 2 pixels is too thick.
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Guest [Entry]

"There is an old trick to make fonts smoother on Ubuntu (and pretty much every distro running Gnome):

Open up .fonts.conf under your home directory (~/.fonts.conf) and paste this in:

<?xml version=""1.0"" ?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM ""fonts.dtd"">
<fontconfig>
<match target=""font"">
<edit name=""autohint"" mode=""assign"">
<bool>true</bool>
</edit>
</match>
</fontconfig>

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Guest [Entry]

"The latest versions of Ubuntu allows changing these settings via Preferences > Appearance > Fonts > Details

I find Medium hinting to be the most pleasing on my LCD screen."