[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1028918: gtk3 flatpaks use subpixel highlighting

[Sébastien Villemot]

Le vendredi 27 janvier 2023 à 23:41 +0100, Sébastien Villemot a écrit :
> On Sat, 14 Jan 2023 22:35:56 -0000 two at envs.net wrote:
> > Package: flatpak, fontconfig-config
> > 
> > i am using Debian GNU/Linux testing, GNOME.
> > 
> > every package from flathub that uses GTK 3 displays text with
> subpixel antialiasing, while the system antialiasing is set to
> grayscale in dconf (the default).
> > 
> > users of other distros don't report this error.
> 
> This is because subpixel rendering was enabled by default in fontconfig
> 2.14.1. And it overrides the GNOME setting (which is accessible in
> GNOME Tweaks or directly in the gsettings/dconf database).
> 
> As a workaround, you can run “dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config” and
> disable subpixel rendering (3rd question).

Sorry I overlooked that you were specifically talking about flatpaks.
My statement applies to regular GTK/GNOME applications, probably not to
flatpak which have their own runtime.

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