The rendering bugfix is incorporated into cairo 1.11.4, released 2012-03-12, so that's a little bit of progress I suppose.
For whatever reason, though, now that I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 beta, even my lovingly hand-patched and compiled version of Cairo doesn't seem to resolve this problem anymore. (It worked in 11.04 and I skipped 11.10.) And I also see that the UI for selecting a desired subpixel orientation has been removed from Ubuntu (though there's still a key in gconf at /desktop/gnome/font_rendering/rgba_order). Argh. You know what DOES work? Mounting my monitor upside-down. Voilà, instant R-G-B stripe order. That's what it has come to. -- 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
