Hi all, I have updated the Fontconfig FAQ at http://wiki.fontconfig.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Fontconfig/FontconfigFAQ with a discussion of how to disable antialiased font rendering on a Fontconfig-enabled system. Having searched the web for some time and not found the "right" answer to this question, I went and figured it out myself. Please take a look and tell me if I've said anything bogus. You may ask why I have done this -- for me it's an accessibility issue. Antialiased fonts look blurry on my LCD, even with the latest XFree86/Freetype/GTK+2/Fontconfig. I've also tried various combinations of subpixel rendering settings but that seems to make it even worse, the result as I can see it is that with subpixel rendering I see funky bits of red and/or blue along with the text. Could this be due to the fact that I am diagnosed with astigmatism (essentially means I use only a single eye at any one time)? Maybe someone can tell me what subpixel rendering looks like for them if they look at it with one eye closed? :-) There may be more people affected by this (or those who just prefer the non-antialiased rendering) and possibly it should be brought to the attention of the GNOME/KDE accessibility people so that we can get this mentioned in the FAQs and/or a preference for it in the random Control-Center-of-the-week. Apologies if this is not the right forum for this, but I gather that quite a few desktop/distro people probably lurk here. Please Cc: me on replies. Thanks, -mato
