Wolfgang Draxinger wrote:
On Sun, 06 Apr 2014 23:04:40 +0200
Raimund Steger <rs@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
(1) script something that adjusts fonts.conf dynamically depending on
your needs (changes are picked up automatically after the rescan
delay). Maybe someday some distribution or clever g-s-d config comes
up with this too, but until then, I suppose you'd have to write it
yourself...
Doesn't work, since /home is on a network share. Any change there would
be assimilated by every system currently using it, i.e. every
fontconfig enabled active user session due to the active poll and
dynamic configuration.
no, every session can have its own config, check $FONTCONFIG_FILE
(2) refrain from configuring AA with fontconfig and rely on XSETTINGS
Unfortunately this doesn't work reliably. Also things like subpixel
what do you mean with "reliable"? In my experience it works as it
should, i.e. is tied to the display. Whether that solves all problems
you have is of course a different matter, but your comment about XRDB in
your mail suggested that you'd already view a display-based approach as
an improvement.
I've wondered myself about XSETTINGS vs. XRDB a couple of times and the
spec didn't convince me either, but (1) it's there, (2) it works, (3)
it's not really a fontconfig matter.
fontconfig is really agnostic of any display technology. If it was
anybody's job to update AA settings according to the display hardware,
it would be g-s-d or a similar session daemon. NB. g-s-d has a plugin
architecture, so if you use it, just add one that does what you want.
Maybe it'll even become popular!
I personally wouldn't embrace fontconfig being linked against libX11,
D-Bus etc. A config file/environment var based approach is fine with me,
and it's really pretty flexible.
Raimund
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