> With KDE it is of course possible to fine-tune the font settings in a nice > menu which uses the proper technical terms. Just go to "Control Center > > Appearance & Themes > Fonts" and select "Use anti-aliasing for fonts". You > can use the "Configure..." button to set the hinting style, etc. Your > ~/.fonts.conf will be rewritten accordingly as soon as you press "Apply" or > "OK". You have to log out and log in again for the setting to take effect, > though (if I remember correctly). I never had to use the > gnome-control-center after that, and the text rendering in all my GTK2 > applications is fine.
Yes, you are right. The KDE control center does indeed modify .fonts.conf. So I have activated the anti-aliasing from there instead. But the GTK bug is around until I start gnome-control-center (or gnome-settings-daemon). I can see that after logging in to KDE, my GTK apps are not anti-aliased until I run one of those commands, even though .fonts.conf says that they should be. This is independent of $GDK_USE_XFT=0/1. But after I run gnome-settings-daemon or gnome-control-center, fonts in GTK apps become anti-aliased and smaller, and the bug disappears. In addition KDE fonts also become smaller. All this while not changing .fonts.conf at all... Best regards, Torquil M. Sørensen
