The default Terminal and desktop fonts rendering of Debian Squeeze are nice but when it comes to intensive web browsing, particularly in high resolution, Debian is not as much comfortable as other operating systems such as Mac OS, Ubuntu and Windows.
The following instructions and commands provide an easy way to improve the overall display rendering with minimal changes to enable bold effects in GNOME sessions for a pleasant Web browsing experience with Google Chrome.
1. Update fonts configuration files.
Switch to root user.
$ su - Password:
Download the new fontconfig XML files.
# wget http://www.osresources.com/files/centos-windows-fonts/fontconfig.tbz
Backup old configuration files then extract new ones into /etc/fonts.
# for i in `ls /etc/fonts/*.conf`; do cp $i $i.bak; done # tar xvjpf fontconfig.tbz -C /etc/fonts/
Clean up.
# rm fontconfig.tbz
Exit root session.
# exit
Restart your GNOME session.
$ gnome-session-save --logout
2. Download, install and configure Google Chrome.
Switch to root user.
$ su - Password:
Debian Squeeze comes with Chromium Web Browser version 6.x. Download and install the latest version of Google Chrome. Replace i386 by amd64 if your operation system is 64 bits.
# wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb # dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb
If you get the following message:
Errors were encountered while processing: google-chrome-stable
Then install missing dependencies as follows:
# apt-get -f install
Clean up and exit root session.
# rm google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb # exit
Run Google Chrome by opening Applications > Internet > Google Chrome or by issuing the following command:
$ google-chrome &
Click on the wrench icon in top right corner and select Preferences. In the Under the Hood tab, set Page zoom to 125%.
Kamel Messaoudi 