I'm finding that my RH8 machines have a peculiar issue with font antialiasing. In previous releases, vertical font elements were always rendered sharply, while antialiasing was used to smooth out curves and diagonals. But in RH8, antialiasing is used to position vertical font elements on the subpixel grid, and this results in extremely blurry text. On an LCD panel with subpixel-AA turned on, characters acquire colored shadows. For an example, see: http://www.math.uh.edu/~tibbs/rh8-poor-fonts.gif Can anyone suggest a way to revert to previous behavior? My only alternative seems to be turning AA off completely. Gnome seems to have a tool, gnome-font-properties, that shows (under the "details" panel) four levels of hinting, with "full" being the only one that doesn't have the bothersome effect. But this tool has no effect on non-Gnome applications. This suggests that there might be a way to tweak /etc/fonts.conf somehow, but documentation of that file seems to be missing. - J< _______________________________________________ xfree86-list mailing list xfree86-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xfree86-list IRC: #xfree86 on irc.redhat.com
