Comment 11 for bug 588311

> Are you sure that your issue is not just that Firefox isn't honouring the settings in the GNOME font dialog?

Indeed the other Gnome applications (and Gnome itself) don't change appearance.

> Xft.lcdfilter property on the X server in Hardy

How can I check if this parameter is in place ?

Anyway I report my settings.
In Appearing Preference I have the following setup:

Rendering: monochrome
Smoothing: None
Hinting: full
Subpixel order: RGB

My ~/.fonts.conf is

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<fontconfig>

<dir>~/.fonts</dir>

<match target="font">
    <test compare="more" name="pixelsize" qual="any">
        <double>0</double>
    </test>
    <test compare="less" name="pixelsize" qual="any">
        <double>16</double>
    </test>
    <edit mode="assign" name="antialias">
        <bool>false</bool>
    </edit>

</match>

<match target="font" >
  <edit mode="assign" name="rgba" >
   <const>rgb</const>
  </edit>
</match>

<match target="font" >
  <edit mode="assign" name="hinting" >
   <bool>true</bool>
  </edit>
</match>

<match target="font" >
  <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle" >
   <const>hintfull</const>
  </edit>
</match>

<match target="font" >
  <edit mode="assign" name="antialias" >
   <bool>true</bool>
  </edit>
</match>

</fontconfig>

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