subpixel smoothing in wrong order after screen rotation

[Felix Dietze]

Binary package hint: gnome-control-center

When you have subpixel smoothing enabled and rotate the screeen over System -> Preferences -> Display, the subpixel order is in the wrong direction and the fonts look bad. You have to change the order manually in System -> Preferences -> Appearance. This should be done automatically.

I already posted this on brainstorm: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/21954

I implemented this in my rotation scripts like this:

xrandr -o inverted
gconftool-2 --type string --set /desktop/gnome/font_rendering/rgba_order "bgr"

this can be done for all the other rotations with rgb, bgr, vrgb, vbgr.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. The issue is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug the to the people writting the software (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

is that still an issue in Oneiric?

[Felix Dietze (felix-beerleader)]

Yes, just testet it on the current daily live system. The bug is still present.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

could you report it to GNOME?

[Felix Dietze (felix-beerleader)]

I don't have access to a machine with a recent gnome version right now to test if it is still present. I also never used Gnome 3. Could someone else please do that?