I'm not entirely qualified to comment on the hinter versus subpixel interaction,
but I suspect they *may* possibly be mutually exclusive. As for picking LCds,
xresprobe should probably have a way to work that out. But if local.conf
overrides ~/.fonts/config, or whatever it is, then that's a fontconfig bug that
needs to be fixed (so you can set the subpixel order, e.g, since not everyone
has RGB).
I'm not entirely qualified to comment on the hinter versus subpixel interaction,
but I suspect they *may* possibly be mutually exclusive. As for picking LCds,
xresprobe should probably have a way to work that out. But if local.conf
overrides ~/.fonts/config, or whatever it is, then that's a fontconfig bug that
needs to be fixed (so you can set the subpixel order, e.g, since not everyone
has RGB).