I think this somewhat improved the situation. A nicer kind of AA is now present, and at least it's no longer blurry. But still no subpixel. This is what I had used in ~.Xresources: ! Xft settings --------------------------------------------------------------- Xft.dpi: 96 Xft.antialias: true Xft.rgba: rgb Xft.hinting: true Xft.hintstyle: hintslight On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 2:32 PM, Troy Engel <troyengel+arch@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 3:52 AM, Vladimir Nikšić <vniksic@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > > > I'm using xfce4. The settings > appearance had subpixel disabled, but > once > > enabled chromium still didn't obey the subpixel hinting. I don't > understand > > what has changed exactly with chromium, and how do I set it to have > > subpixel once again. > > I have had this problem with Chrome before with xfce4, and had to > specifically configure ~/.Xresources for it to respect the same font > antialiasing that was normally done in the other places (fonts.conf, > gtkrc-2.0, etc.) > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/X_resources#Xft_resources > > Try setting those up and see if it helps -- don't forget to run 'xrdb > -merge ~/.Xresources' to actually activate the changes, then restart > Chromium. > > -te >
