> > So my question should probably be rephrased to "Why does KDE use a different > > rendering mechanism under VNC than under video?". > > > > My guess is that the old code to fall back to core X fonts when the > Xrender extension is missing is still in there. But this code is no > longer required, as Xft2 doesn't require the Xrender extension. > > Can you file a bug against "qt" that it should never fall back to core > X fonts? Done (75880). For those who have been following this quietly, I would like to add that rebuilding freetype with #define without_bytecode_interpreter 0 made me very happy. J.