[Oneiric] Now way to configure font hinting and subpixel order

[Philipp Wendler]

On my old Ubuntu installation, I had enabled font hinting and configured the subpixel order so that the fonts look well on my LCD.

On my fresh Oneiric installation, there is no way to do so, and the fonts look really ugly in some places (e.g., in the panel). They appear to be blurry, which disturbs me very much. My eyes even keep moving up the place where the indicators sit just because there is something there that doesn't look right. Ubuntu really needs a way to configure these things if they can't be detected automatically.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[mazurkin (mazurkin)]

sudo apt-get install gnome-tweak-tool

After that you will be able to change fonts and aliasing. But I agree - we need an option to edit these settings by default

[Philipp Wendler (philw85)]

I have heard of gnome-tweak-tool, but I have also heard a lot of warnings about it, which say that it shouldn't be used for Ubuntu. So this is not a recommendation we could give to users.

[vilbara (vilmantas-baranauskas)]

And it should be possible to turn off the subpixel rendering alltogether.

I do not like "colored" characters and would prefer subpixel rendering being off by default but at least an easy option to turn this off would be great.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

That's an upstream feature request and should be reported to GNOME, that's not going to be added in an Ubuntu specific way