Different font, while using same TC but on different laptops

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Different font, while using same TC but on different laptops

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Hello,

I am running the same copy of TC from USB stick, on two different laptops with Win 10. On one laptop the fonts are not bolded, but on the other laptop the fonts are nice showing in bold characters. Why is this difference, and how can I use the same bold font on both laptops ?

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Re: Different font, while using same TC but on different laptops

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Maybe you have different settings for anti-aliasing (font smoothing) in the two Windows installations - fonts can look somewhat different with or without font smoothing.

You can make TC override the system's setting for anti-aliasing with the FontQuality parameter in the [Configuration] section of your wincmd.ini file:
Help wrote:FontQuality=0 Let the user set the font quality, e.g. to enabled antialiasing or ClearType even when it's disabled globally in Windows.
0:DEFAULT (as configured system-wide),
3:NONANTIALIASED,
4:ANTIALIASED,
5:CLEARTYPE,
6:CLEARTYPE_NATURAL
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Re: Different font, while using same TC but on different laptops

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mentosan,
When updating an older installation, it will retain the original bold font setting. If you install TC anew, it will use a non-bold font setting by default.
25.09.13 Release Total Commander 8.50 public beta 4 (32/64)
25.09.13 Added: Windows Vista or newer: Use "Segoe UI Semibold" as new default main window and list font if available (32/64)
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Re: Different font, while using same TC but on different laptops

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mentosan wrote:I am running the same copy of TC from USB stick
It is the same TC that behaves differently with two different Windows' for mentosan - so unless mentosan is using local settings on the harddisk instead of the same wincmd.ini on the USB stick, there shouldn't be a difference.

2mentosan: do you have UseIniInProgramDir=7 in the [Configuration] section of your wincmd.ini on the USB-drive?
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Re: Different font, while using same TC but on different laptops

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petermad,
Indeed, I must have skipped that part. My apologies.

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Re: Different font, while using same TC but on different laptops

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petermad wrote: 2021-10-08, 15:35 UTC do you have UseIniInProgramDir=7 in the [Configuration] section of your wincmd.ini on the USB-drive?
No, I don't have this parameter in wincmd.ini file

It is the same TC that behaves differently with two different Windows' for mentosan - so unless mentosan is using local settings on the harddisk instead of the same wincmd.ini on the USB stick, there shouldn't be a difference.
The thing is that on the laptop where the font is bolder and nicer (in my opinion), TC was installed a while ago, but now it is uninstalled. Now, on this laptop, I am running TC exclusively from the USB-drive, without any install. And I would like to have the same font on the other laptop where TC was never installed using a setup file.

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Re: Different font, while using same TC but on different laptops

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Basically, I want this font whenever I run TC from USB-drive:

Image: https://mega.nz/file/1F8h2IqR#U2YlYh1p15EOKv60WsbT4EcL-PHgCBVlBILVyVSkQKY

Instead of this one:

Image: https://mega.nz/file/cZ0EGQiZ#svpRiMc4oHhhFAxobk_rix2LiCF_45ZswA5isltU7hM
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Re: Different font, while using same TC but on different laptops

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mentosan wrote: 2021-10-09, 14:20 UTC
petermad wrote: 2021-10-08, 15:35 UTC do you have UseIniInProgramDir=7 in the [Configuration] section of your wincmd.ini on the USB-drive?
No, I don't have this parameter in wincmd.ini file
If you don't have that in your wincmd.ini file TC will use the wincmd.ini on the harddisk of the current laptop - usually located in C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Ghisler\ - you can see which wincmd.ini file TC is using by clicking on Help -> About Total Commander.
mentosan wrote:TC was installed a while ago, but now it is uninstalled
TC's settings in C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Ghisler\ is not removed when you uninstall TC.

If you want to run TC with the same settings from a USB-drive on all computers you can put UseIniInProgramDir=7 in the [Configuration] section of your wincmd.ini - you will have to configure your TC again from scratch or you can copy the wincmd.ini from C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Ghisler\ from one of your laptops. You should check that path's to your previous harddisk installation are not present in the wincmd.ini file.
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Re: Different font, while using same TC but on different laptops

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UseIniInProgramDir=7 did the trick.

Thank you for clarification.
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Re: Different font, while using same TC but on different laptops

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mentosan wrote: 2021-10-10, 16:26 UTC UseIniInProgramDir=7 did the trick.

Thank you for clarification.
So no bug -> this topic should be moved.
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Re: Different font, while using same TC but on different laptops

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