Re: KDE subpixel hinting

[Alex Maurer <debian@blacker47.de>]

On Wed, 1 Oct 2008 16:17:29 +0200
Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 21:02:25 +0200, Alex Maurer wrote:
> > On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:27:09 +0200 Florian Kulzer 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?
> 
> I don't know; you may get a better answer if you ask this question on
> the debian-kde list.

For the first I found a workaround.
Just edit in ~/.fonts.conf none to rgb in

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

Checkbox in the controllcenter still gray out but sub-pixel hinting is on.