Comments on: Snow Leopard vs. 3rd Party LCD Displays

By: Luca

Luca — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:01:54 +0000

Solved, I changed from VGA cable to DVI cable and everything works fine.

By: Luca

Luca — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:46:33 +0000

I’ve the same problem, just buy a new i mac…I connected a samsung syncmaster 206bw by mac vga cable and I’m not able to set the native resolution of the external monitor, it doesn’t appear in the resolution choices…horrible

By: chris

chris — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:47:19 +0000

hello....i've a 21,5 Asus (vh222)...i tried the fix..... (option 1,2,3 and then restart)

but the problem remain !!!

what the hell....how can i resolve this ? it's a tremendous bug...incredible!

By: Prashant

Prashant — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 08:34:36 +0000

Is this problem the same as getting font displayed wider than usual on mac and not on windows? I thought it was just a safari issue and so i downloaded firefox and crome, but the issue is the same on all.. on firefox the space between the letters is also more and this cases the website to break the layout. This is very irritating, i chaned the smooth pixel option now to render below 12 px and it seems to work on safari.. not a perfect font but i could live with it but the problem remains unchanged on FF. Any clue how to fix this?

By: BabethGuion

BabethGuion — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 07:45:47 +0000

I am having the same problem, The font is blurry on the computer screen.I have tried everything…I switched to Mac to avoid problems…

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 18:09:11 +0000

@Ryan Same thing. One monitor is fine, the other is not. Very frustrating.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:38:05 +0000

This seemed to work for me until I connected a second display to my Mac Pro. Does it make sense that a second display would cause problems? Any suggestions for fixing Font Smoothing with two displays on Snow Leopard? Is Apple just trying to get us to buy their displays?!?

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 10:01:38 +0000

Thanks a lot! “defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain AppleFontSmoothing -int 2″ helped a lot for me after installing Snow Leopard and seeing some fonts (not all) with horrible jaggies! My configuration: Mac mini (2009), OSX 10.6.1, Monitor Acer AL2216W sd (22″). Thanks again!

By: MCDawang

MCDawang — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:10:19 +0000

謝謝 jjgod 和 CWS 朋友，解決了我的顯示器問題，現在字體效果很好。

By: Arnoud

Arnoud — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:21:23 +0000

Yes, I’ve tried that. The problem is that the text in the menu bar (from iStat Menus for example) doesn’t look as in Leopard when I use the “fix” (none of the settings). When I turn off LCD font smoothing in the prefs, it does look as in Leopard there, but then the text in browsers, emails, text editing apps etc. looks horrible (like ClearType). Each fixes it partly, but it’s one or the other for me, and the “fix” never manages to show the font smoothing quality of Leopard..