The cairo patch in freedesktop.org solved the problem for me. I manually applied the patch in cairo 1.10.2, built it and manually installed it over the packaged version in Natty.
BGR-ordered subpixel font rendering now looks fine systemwide, and switching back and forth between RGB and BGR has the expected effect. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/703191 Title: BGR-ordered subpixel font rendering appears broken/nonfunctional in Gnome/GTK+ To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/cairo/+bug/703191/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs