Tobias Ulmer: > > When I run the application on a remote X11 display, some fonts > > (e.g. the one used for the menus) have colored fringes. I don't > > know if this is some sort of anti-aliasing gone wrong, but it > > looks a lot like chromatic aberration in analog optics. This is > > definitely a problem that affects all Gtk+2-based applications. > > That's caused by fontconfig. You might want to create a ~/.fonts.conf > with this:
I'm a month late, but I have finally looked at this. > <?xml version="1.0"?><!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd"> > <fontconfig> > <match target="font" > > <edit mode="assign" name="rgba" > > <const>none</const> > </edit> > </match> > <match target="font" > > <edit mode="assign" name="lcdfilter" > > <const>lcdnone</const> > </edit> > </match> > <match target="font" > > <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle" > > <const>hintfull</const> > </edit> > </match> > </fontconfig> The lcdfilter property doesn't exist and the other settings have no effect. > http://fontconfig.org/fontconfig-user.html for possible values. Or /usr/X11R6/share/doc/fontconfig/fontconfig-user.* for that matter. Alas, the description of the available properties is minimal and the values are undocumented. As usual, Google reveals a lively scene where people pass around magic fonts.conf incantations that are rumored to cure various ills, but real understanding appears absent. Sigh. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de
