Fonts look blurry if ~/.fonts.conf (even empty one) is present
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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fontconfig (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
After a default Kubuntu installation, fonts look nicely anti-aliased and still clear (see attachment clear-before-
If you think it is a mistake to have a quasi empty ~/.fonts.conf present, or the one that Kubuntu System Settings writes out is wrong (see linked bug: fonts.diff), then this bug against fontconfig may be rejected. But I assume, that if one setting is not present in ~/.fonts.conf, it is taken from /etc/fonts/
This bug seems to have been encountered by various users who have added their information to #63403. Especially comment 20 explains this, and the following comments also conclude, that maybe for mentioned case (3) there should be a separate bug filed. Maybe my bug report fulfills this need.
The issue you describe here is even more odd. I don't understand why an empty ~/.fonts.conf makes any difference, there are no conflicts in this case. hintmedium resources, and setting hintstyle to hintfull in ~/.fonts.conf), then a priority should be clearly made, and every apps should follow it.
The problem I was talking about is that it's not clear what the priority is between Xft resources and the settings in ~/.fonts.conf . If both conflict (eg having the Xft.hintstyle=