Re: KDE subpixel hinting
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.
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