Hi, I just noticed a few minutes ago that an important XFT customization I'm using is not working anymore. I have "match edit rgba = rgb;" at the end of my /etc/X11/XftConfig so that my LCD panel uses sub-pixel rendering rather than normal anti-aliasing. This worked fine up until now, but suddenly it's doing regular anti-aliasing rather than sub-pixel rendering. I went through all of the files I could find that were named XftConfig appending this to the bottom, restarted X a few times, and it's still not working. I just edited the version in the files directory of the ebuild and I'm trying the ebuild again. I remember a new ebuild for X came out recently and I'm betting it didn't happen until then. I also noticed there's several patches for this version of X which might apply to this problem, but I really don't know enough to examine them. Thanks for your help; it means a lot to me to not lose my eyes on my screen! :) Daniel
I think this is related with the Xft2 and the new fontconfig. Here is the contents of the /etc/X11/XftConfig.README-OBSOLETE included in RedHat 8.0: # IMPORTANT NOTICE about XftConfig: # # The XftConfig config file has been deprecated and obsoleted by # /etc/fonts/fonts.conf, which is the new font configuration file for Xft2, and # is provided by "fontconfig". A backward compatible Xft1 library is also # provided which has been converted to use fontconfig also and provide users # with a single way of configuring client side fonts, while retaining binary # compatibility. For information on configuring fonts using fontconfig, # please consult the fontconfig documentation. So replacing in /etc/fonts/fonts.cfg <!-- Enable sub-pixel rendering <match target="font"> <edit name="rgba" mode="assign"><const>rgb</const></edit> </match> --> by <!-- Enable sub-pixel rendering --> <match target="font"> <edit name="rgba" mode="assign"><const>rgb</const></edit> </match> Should do the trick.
Using the /etc/fonts/fonts.conf and making the suggested change worked. :) Thanks for the fast response!
