Comment 62 for bug 190848

In reply to comment 45:

> Mikael: xterm is not a GNOME program,

True, but ...

> therefore I'm not surprised it doesn't follow the GNOME font rendering
> settings.

... last I checked, GNOME settings cause Xft X server resource database
properties to be set, and so should have an effect on xterm behavior unless
overridden by fontconfig settings.

The bug here is that system fontconfig settings are always overriding settings
from Xft X resources.

The upstream bug is https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17722, but
upstream fontconfig does not install these problem files by default.

The problem only appears when the distribution installs the 10-* links in
/etc/fonts/conf.d/.