Comments on: Blurry Text on External Monitor with Snow Leopard http://blog.petersendidit.com/post/blurry-text-on-external-monitor-with-snow-leopard/ blog of david petersen Tue, 03 Aug 2010 19:50:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Bruce http://blog.petersendidit.com/post/blurry-text-on-external-monitor-with-snow-leopard/comment-page-1/#comment-915 Bruce Wed, 19 May 2010 16:51:37 +0000 http://blog.petersendidit.com/?p=110#comment-915 Interesting I haven't had any problems with it not "sticking" on my MacBook Pro. If you type in defaults -currentHost read -globalDomain AppleFontSmoothing After rebooting what does it say? If its still set it should return the value that you set it to with the first command. The other thing that can set it back to the "automatic" setting is going in to System Preferences and selecting "Automatic Font Smoothing" checkbox. Interesting I haven’t had any problems with it not “sticking” on my MacBook Pro. If you type in

defaults -currentHost read -globalDomain AppleFontSmoothing

After rebooting what does it say? If its still set it should return the value that you set it to with the first command. The other thing that can set it back to the “automatic” setting is going in to System Preferences and selecting “Automatic Font Smoothing” checkbox.

]]> By: user http://blog.petersendidit.com/post/blurry-text-on-external-monitor-with-snow-leopard/comment-page-1/#comment-822 user Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:14:36 +0000 http://blog.petersendidit.com/?p=110#comment-822 Just a followup, yes there was more then just the preference change. Apple completely changed the font smoothing in Snow Leopard and there is no 1:1 version of Snow Leopard to Leopard Font Smoothing. Everything in Snow Leopard is darker and bolder even when you get it somewhat close to how you had it in Leopard. The good news is most people don't even notice such things and just continue on without noticing the change. The bad is if your like me you can really see the difference and it will drive you insane. In the end I gave up and reinstalled Leopard because I just couldn't live with the bolder blurry fonts no matter how much it was tweaked. For future readers who have external LCDs or have keen eyes if you are interested in Snow Leopard install it via External Drive first and run it that way for a week to see if you can live with it. Just a followup, yes there was more then just the preference change. Apple completely changed the font smoothing in Snow Leopard and there is no 1:1 version of Snow Leopard to Leopard Font Smoothing. Everything in Snow Leopard is darker and bolder even when you get it somewhat close to how you had it in Leopard.

The good news is most people don’t even notice such things and just continue on without noticing the change. The bad is if your like me you can really see the difference and it will drive you insane. In the end I gave up and reinstalled Leopard because I just couldn’t live with the bolder blurry fonts no matter how much it was tweaked.

For future readers who have external LCDs or have keen eyes if you are interested in Snow Leopard install it via External Drive first and run it that way for a week to see if you can live with it.

]]> By: John S http://blog.petersendidit.com/post/blurry-text-on-external-monitor-with-snow-leopard/comment-page-1/#comment-807 John S Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:52:11 +0000 http://blog.petersendidit.com/?p=110#comment-807 I have a Samsung 205BW and I pasted the code into a terminal window. I see in preferences their seems to be a change. But no physical change in the monitor. Its just as blurry. I think their must be more that Apple did to the font smoothing then just this. In monitors It correctly identifies my Monitor? Again maybe its a subtle attempt at Apple to get you to buy their monitor? I have a Samsung 205BW and I pasted the code into a terminal window.
I see in preferences their seems to be a change. But no physical change in the monitor. Its just as blurry. I think their must be more that Apple did to the font smoothing then just this. In monitors It correctly identifies my Monitor? Again maybe its a subtle attempt at Apple to get you to buy their monitor?

]]> By: Ivan Wong http://blog.petersendidit.com/post/blurry-text-on-external-monitor-with-snow-leopard/comment-page-1/#comment-801 Ivan Wong Mon, 12 Oct 2009 02:58:48 +0000 http://blog.petersendidit.com/?p=110#comment-801 Excuse me, is it input in "Terminal" --> "New COmmand" --> paste the command --> "RUN" ?? after restart the mac, I can't see the effect, how can I solve it. my LCD monitor is LG W2261VP Excuse me, is it input in “Terminal” –> “New COmmand” –> paste the command –> “RUN” ??
after restart the mac, I can’t see the effect, how can I solve it.

my LCD monitor is LG W2261VP

]]> By: robert http://blog.petersendidit.com/post/blurry-text-on-external-monitor-with-snow-leopard/comment-page-1/#comment-680 robert Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:50:57 +0000 http://blog.petersendidit.com/?p=110#comment-680 I receive an error when using "defaults -currentHost read -globalDomain AppleFontSmoothing" > The domain/default pair of (kCFPreferencesAnyApplication, AppleFontSmoothing) does not exist Very strange. Thanks for tip write up anyway. I receive an error when using “defaults -currentHost read -globalDomain AppleFontSmoothing”

> The domain/default pair of (kCFPreferencesAnyApplication, AppleFontSmoothing) does not exist

Very strange.
Thanks for tip write up anyway.

]]> By: petersendidit http://blog.petersendidit.com/post/blurry-text-on-external-monitor-with-snow-leopard/comment-page-1/#comment-536 petersendidit Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:20:31 +0000 http://blog.petersendidit.com/?p=110#comment-536 Interesting I haven't had any problems with it not "sticking" on my MacBook Pro. If you type in defaults -currentHost read -globalDomain AppleFontSmoothing After rebooting what does it say? If its still set it should return the value that you set it to with the first command. The other thing that can set it back to the "automatic" setting is going in to System Preferences and selecting "Automatic Font Smoothing" checkbox. Interesting I haven’t had any problems with it not “sticking” on my MacBook Pro. If you type in

defaults -currentHost read -globalDomain AppleFontSmoothing

After rebooting what does it say? If its still set it should return the value that you set it to with the first command. The other thing that can set it back to the “automatic” setting is going in to System Preferences and selecting “Automatic Font Smoothing” checkbox.

]]> By: Nick http://blog.petersendidit.com/post/blurry-text-on-external-monitor-with-snow-leopard/comment-page-1/#comment-535 Nick Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:15:19 +0000 http://blog.petersendidit.com/?p=110#comment-535 This change seems to reset when you reboot, any way to make it stick? This change seems to reset when you reboot, any way to make it stick?

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