Playing with Fontconfig (2020)

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Post by venamresm__ » Tue, Jan 02, 2024, 9:20 AM UTC

Playing with Fontconfig (2020)
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Re: Playing with Fontconfig (2020)

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Post by mcint » Wed, Jan 03, 2024, 10:01 AM UTC

Classic thorough post venam! Glad you're sharing them!

I don't have the spare cycles to substantively engage. These posts would make for really good discussion seeds in the linux infrastructure meetup I run. Comprehensive, but still approachable answers to what it takes to solve X well, here font rendering.

Re: Playing with Fontconfig (2020)

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Post by jasperry » Wed, Jan 03, 2024, 3:26 PM UTC

Great article that captures and organizes a lot of information that's not so easy to find with Google. I've spent many hours tweaking the Freetype antialiasing settings and interpreter version to get font rendering "just right" on Linux. Now that I know about this article, I might give it another go.

BTW, I just noticed that the Firefox UI isn't picking up my RGB subpixel settings. Does anybody know a fix for that?

Re: Playing with Fontconfig (2020)

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Post by enormousness » Thu, Jan 04, 2024, 7:25 AM UTC

jasperry wrote: post #3

Great article that captures and organizes a lot of information that's not so easy to find with Google. I've spent many hours tweaking the Freetype antialiasing settings and interpreter version to get font rendering "just right" on Linux. Now that I know about this article, I might give it another go. BTW, I just noticed that the Firefox UI isn't picking up my RGB subpixel settings. Does anybody know a fix for that?

Firefox uses the fontconfig settings only and ignores desktop environment settings. So you need to change the rgba setting in your .fonts.conf.