Bug#502481: libgtk2.0-0: ignores fontconfig subpixel rendering setting on LCD

[hhaamu at gmail.com]

On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:14:56 +0100
Josselin Mouette <joss at debian.org> wrote:
> Indeed, GTK+ ignores the defaults in fontconfig, and instead, detects
> the subpixel ordering dynamically in a per-screen fashion, which is a
> vastly superior approach. 

It is superior, as long as it's what you indeed want. Some people
prefer not to have subpixels.

> If you really want to override this behavior, you can configure it by
> setting the Xft.rgba X resource (in ~/.Xresources).

Thanks, it did the trick. Now my fonts look decent again.
This should be documented somewhere, maybe somewhere in /etc/fonts