Re: KDE subpixel hinting
On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:27:09 +0200
Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 19:35:35 +0200, Alex Maurer wrote:
> > I have both, etch and lenny installed. Both with KDE 3. At etch I can
> > activate font-aliasing with subpixel hinting but I can't activate it
> > at lenny. The checkbox for subpixel hinting are gray and not useable.
> >
> > Any hints, why?
>
> I checked on my Sid system and the box is grayed out for me as well. I
> have not idea what caused this. However, the "Hinting style:" combobox
> below it (options: None, Slight, Medium, Full) still works normally
> here.
>
> When in doubt, check the Xft settings in the X resource database:
>
> $ xrdb -query | grep Xft
> Xft.antialias: 1
> Xft.dpi: 96
> Xft.hinting: 1
> Xft.hintstyle: hintfull
> Xft.rgba: none
>
> I can activate the RGB subpixel hinting with
>
> echo "Xft.rgba: rgb" | xrdb -merge
>
> but this only has an effect on non-KDE applications (which are started
> after the setting has been changed). The normal "gray" hinting still
> works fine also for KDE applications AFAICT. (I do not like the "color
> bleeding" look of RGB subpixel hinting anyway, so I did not notice that
> this option had gone missing from the KDE control center dialog.)
Just tested. Right, no effect for KDE-apps. And for me it is with sub-pixel hinting really nicer and no "bleeding-effect".
Should I report it as a bug or do I simple need some packages to get it work?
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