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What's the proper way of configuring the subpixel/antialiasing rendering of fonts. I'm getting lost in the many ways on how this can be configured:
1) Use only fontconfig configuration files. This is the most flexible. It allows you specify things on a very detailed level (per font, per font size etc).
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Xorg_and_Fonts
2a) Use "Appearance" setting panel in Gnome. The same setting for all fonts, only for Gnome Applications. I'm not sure how it interacts with the fontconfig settings from the fontconfig configuration files...
2b) Similar, Xfce has similar settings for just the Xfce desktop apps...
2c) Haven't looked KDE, but I'm sure they do something similar as well...
3) Use ~/.Xdefaults (See: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/ScreenFontSettings). These are interpreted by the Xft library itself and will use these if those hints are not already set. Again, not sure how this interacts with the fontconfig configuration files....
I'm running a mixed desktop, ie Gnome/Kde/Xfce/Fox applications...
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I find that I have to use several of the mentioned methods. For example one of the apps I use (I forget which one) respects settings configured in .Xresources, but ignores fontconfig. And you should probably use your DE's font configuration as well just so there's no conflict. I'm not sure I can say there's one proper way since I don't think all apps respect the same methods of configuration.
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