Ubuntu font rendering on Debian Wheezy & Sid
The one thing which always kept me from using Debian was the horrific font rendering on LCD screens which has plagued it since it was born. I’ve always liked the way Ubuntu renders fonts, so now Debian has pretty much the same libcairo2 package by default, making the fonts render like Ubuntu’s is pretty easy.
First thing to do is grab Ubuntu’s fonconfig-config package from any of the mirrors here: http://packages.ubuntu.com/natty/all/fontconfig-config/download and save it somewhere. Now open the .deb file with Archive Manager (file-roller) as root and enter the /etc/fonts directory within the archive. Next, open nautilus as root (Alt + F2, gksudo nautilus) and brows to /etc/fonts on your Debian file system.
Next step is mega easy, just drag all the files and folders from the archive into the file browser, replacing all files which already exist.
Log out and back in, and change font preferences so they looks something like this:
Font configuration
Once this is done, fonts should be Ubuntu pretty!
NOTE: It works fantastically well with Ubuntu fonts! 
Thanks so much. It worked just fine! I don’t know if it has something to do also with me having installed the iceweasel com mozilla repository, which, I read, would update libcairo.
Fonts now look a lot better
Thanks, man!
Copying these files into /etc/fonts works with the default libcairo which comes with wheezy now =]
The correct way to solve this would be to file a bug in Debian’s BTS telling the packagers that there are differences that you would like to see in Debian’s packages.
For what I have saw, the differences are some small XML files, so I don’t think there would be much of a problem in fixing it.
Regards, Lisandro.
This is the easiest way to enable smooth fonts on Debian. Works flawlessly! thank you very, very much.
Works 100% thanks a million
It worked like a charm! Thanks a ton!