bad fonts since OS upgrade

[LiNuCe]

Hello,

    You might try what I do everytime I install a new version of XFCE. 
The fact is that XFCE initialize XFT in a manner that I don't wish 
(among other things, it set XFT resolution to 96dpi wheras I have a 72pi 
screen : the consequence is that I have bigger font than I should have 
without this initialization, and at 800x600, this is a such annoying you 
prbably can't imaginate :)).

1)

    $ cp /etc/X11/xfce4/xinitrc ~/.xfce4/xinitrc
    $ chmod 700 ~/.xfce4/xinitrc

2) Locate the following lines :

    xrdb -nocpp -merge - << EOF
    Xft.dpi: 96
    Xft.hinting: 1
    Xft.hintstyle: hintmedium
    EOF

3) Comment them by putting a # at the beginning in order to have the 
following lines :

    #xrdb -nocpp -merge - << EOF
    #Xft.dpi: 96
    #Xft.hinting: 1
    #Xft.hintstyle: hintmedium
    #EOF

4) Restart XFCE. Defaults XFT settings will be used. See if it is better.

5) If this does not solve your problem, uncomment the "Xft.hinting*" 
lines and try to set hinting style with one of those values, restarting 
XFCE each time (I do insist on the restart) :  hintnone, hintslight, 
hintmedium, hintfull.

Hope that helps.