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).
I'm actually somewhat suspicious of that whole "funt around with local.conf" business now. I have a hunch that once set it
/etc/fonts/
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).