I've just checked - all mentioned programs link against libfreetype.so.6, so quiet likely its a configuration program. So it seems there is some common place where the hinting style is stored (something fontconfig related?), and all toolkits except gtk seem to honor it. Now I just need to know why ;) - Clemens 2011/5/27 Paul Davis <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Clemens Eisserer <linuxhippy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Any idea why it does ignore my settings? >> Where does GTK read the font-hinting settings from? > > i think you should probably use the LD_DEBUG options to see where each > of 2 apps that have different behaviour get libfreetype from. its not > impossible, for example, > that they are statically linked against their own version with or > without subpixel hinting. > > see for more information: man ld.so > _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list