Hi, I'm developing with a 3 monitor setup. All were in landscape mode and everything was fine. Yesterday I decided to rotate the two outer monitors into portrait mode. Since I've done that I've noticed that text now appear slightly blurry.
I imagine the reason being because I have LCD anti-aliasing / hinting enabled and the physical LCD monitor pixels are arranged in horizontal RGB order. Rotating the monitors by 90° means I need to tell the font rendering library (in this case FreeType2) that the physical pixels are now in a different order. Here is my current ~/.fonts.conf setting for that: <!-- values are 0-5: unknown, rgb, bgr, vrgb, vbgr, none --> <match target="font"> <edit mode="assign" name="rgba"> <const>rgb</const> </edit> </match> Simply changing the value to "vrgb" fixes the problem for the outer two monitors, but then my center monitor (still in landscape orientation) renders blurry text. Finally my question. Anybody know if you can specify different LCD Hinting settings for different monitors in a multi-monitor setup? I'm using X11 under FreeBSD, but the same issue should apply to any Linux running X11 too. As a compromise, if I change the above setting to "unknown", it then renders the font hinting in grayscale, and that doesn't actually look to bad for all three monitors. LCD hinting (color hinting) is slightly sharper, but the grayscale at least doesn't make the outer monitors look blurry. Anybody found a way to tweak the font hinting in such a monitor arrangement (where you have both landscape and portrait monitors)? Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ My public PGP key: http://tinyurl.com/graeme-pgp _______________________________________________ fpc-other maillist - fpc-other@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-other