Fontconfig - Nov 2005 - sub-pixel hinting turned on when started using DVI cavle to monitor

On Fri, 07 May 2004 08:45:01 -0700 Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
wrote:
> Gnome includes a control panel which selects which kind of font display 
> you get; I thought KDE provided one as well.
If we''re talking about subpixel rendering, it does. See KDE Control
Center,
Appearance & Themes, Fonts, Anti-aliasing, Use subpixel hinting, Choose
desired mode (or disable it).

Not sure though what precedence the KDE settings have over the FC settings.

-- 
Ciprian Popovici

Around 22 o''clock on Apr 27, Jim Higson wrote:
> So the bit that (AFAIK) should enable sub-pixel rendering is commented out!
> Not sure what to do now. The annoying colours around all my fonts is enough
> to make a guy switch to GNOME!
You can take precisely the same code, replace the <const>rgb</const>
with
<const>none</const> and stick it into ~/.fonts.conf (wrapped in
suitable
XML headers and footers, of course)

Gnome includes a control panel which selects which kind of font display 
you get; I thought KDE provided one as well.
> This is getting to be rather frustrating. Just because someone starts using
> a DVI-D connector the computer shouldn''t automatically switch
without
> telling them!
That''s supposed to be a feature -- the system automatically discovers
that
you''re using an LCD monitor and enables sub-pixel text.

-keith


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I don''t like sub-pixel hinting much. Maybe here someone could help with
this,
I''ve been asking for help on the comp.windows.x.kde newsgroup, since I 
thought the hinting was KDE''s choosing at first

The thread on Google is:
http://tinyurl.com/39gy8

I''ve just posted there again. It''ll take a while for Google to
reflect it so
I''ve put my last post below.

Thanks to anyone who can help!
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last post on c.x.w.kde:

I found this in /etc/fonts/local.conf:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<!-- /etc/fonts/local.conf file for local customizations -->
<fontconfig>
<!--
??Enable?sub-pixel?rendering
????????<match?target="font">
????????????????<test?qual="all"?name="rgba">
????????????????????????<const>unknown</const>
????????????????</test>
????????????????<edit?name="rgba"?mode="assign"><const>rgb</const></edit>
????????</match>
-->
</fontconfig>

So the bit that (AFAIK) should enable sub-pixel rendering is commented out!
Not sure what to do now. The annoying colours around all my fonts is enough
to make a guy switch to GNOME!

I don''t think this is a system files problem (I might be wrong) because
if
it were I''d have the same behavoir in GNOME, since they use the same
libs
to draw the fonts.

This is getting to be rather frustrating. Just because someone starts using
a DVI-D connector the computer shouldn''t automatically switch without
telling them!