Bug#242624: libgtk: sub-pixel rendering happening in spite of my wishes

[Michel Dänzer]

On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 20:41, Mikael Nilsson wrote:
> 
> This may not be a gtk bug, but I'm seeing it with GTK apps. Feel free
> to reassign as needed.
> 
> The problem is this: when running GTK apps outside of my gnome
> session, such as under KDE or the gdm greeter itself, I can't disable
> subpixel font rendering.
> 
> For example, running gedit in a KDE session (sub-pixel font rendering
> disabled in /etc/fonts/local.conf *and* in KDE) makes gedit look like:
> 
> http://kmr.nada.kth.se/~mini/gedit-antialias.png

Is gnome-settings-daemon running before you start it? If not, does that
make a difference?

Also, are you using a Radeon card? If so, Xft probably defaults to
sub-pixel rendering because the radeon driver advertises it.

Together, this may explain the symptoms you described.


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