[Qt-interest] [Linux] Ugly anti-aliasing (still) in Qt 4.5

[Pascal Patry]

On March 5, 2009 05:39:47 pm Sebastian Krause wrote:
> Maik Beckmann <beckmann.maik at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > 2009/3/5 Sebastian Krause <sebastian at realpath.org>:
> >> No, it's vertical RGB ordering with very common subpixel smoothing
> >> and full hinting. More or less the default used for LCD screens on
> >> Linux system.
> >
> > This is an very annoying Qt4 issue and I don't get why it isn't fixed
> > (there must be a fix, since Qt3 and gtk apps are just fine).   Adding
> >  <match target="font" >
> >   <edit mode="assign" name="rgba" >
> >    <const>vrgb</const>
> >   </edit>
> >  </match>
> > to ~/.fonts.config fixed it for me.
>
> Could you show me the whole content of your file? No matter what I
> add or change in ~/.fonts.conf the font rendering always looks
> exactly the same in Qt application, even though according to strace
> it's actually read by Qt programs. GTK programs react correctly to
> different settings in the ~/.fonts.conf.

This is probably because you have something in "/etc/fonts/local.conf"

This file is usually read *after* your "~/.fonts.conf", so it overwrites any of your local 
user config.