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

[Michel Dänzer]

On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 12:44, Mikael Nilsson wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 01:04, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 20:41, Mikael Nilsson wrote:
> > 
> > Also, are you using a Radeon card? If so, Xft probably defaults to
> > sub-pixel rendering because the radeon driver advertises it.
> 
> No I'm not. I should have told you my driver:
> NVIDIA GeForce4 440 Go, using the nvidia proprietary driver v5336. But
> it may still be the same situation as with Radeon, I presume?

I guess so, but I don't know for obvious reasons.

> > Together, this may explain the symptoms you described.
> 
> So, to run firefox in KDE, I should start gnome-settings-daemon? Does
> not sound too intuitive to me... :-)

gnome-settings-daemon has to be running for GNOME settings to apply.

> And it does not solve the GDM problem - how do I get GDM to not use
> subpixel rendering?

Not sure, maybe you can explicitly disable it in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf .


> Relevant part of "Device" section in XF86Config: 
> 
>         Option          "UseEdidFreqs" "true"
>         Option          "CursorShadow" "true"
>         Option          "RenderAccel" "true"
>         Option          "DigitalVibrance" "100"
>         Option          "FlatPanelProperties" "Scaling = native, Dithering = enabled"
> 
> Could that matter? Should I try different settings?

I guess the dithering could hurt subpixel rendering.


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