Comment 2 for bug 10049

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Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote :

I'm actually somewhat suspicious of that whole "funt around with
/etc/fonts/local.conf" business now. I have a hunch that once set it
permanently locks your X server into being subpixel rendered, making the GUI
option in the Font Preferences dialog quite useless.

In particular, it sets the sub-pixel alignment to RGB, which may be totally wrong.

Cc'ing people in on this discussion in general.

I'm also a bit dubious over this change in general -- they've actually switched
the autohinter off for subpixel rendering, and I don't see where the change to
turn the bytecode interpreter on is. This reverts the previous change which
made all the fonts much crisper and shinier (to my eyes).