On 2017-07-01 13:20 +1200, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
> Please find attached two Thunar screenshots that exhibit the
> problem. Both were produced with identical font settings,
> example-2.6.png with libfreetype6 2.6, and example-2.8 with
> libfreetype6 2.8. The user interface and window title font is
> Liberation Sans, and the terminal font is DejaVu Sans Mono. The effect
> with 2.8 looks like 2.6 with hinting set to none.
This is an effect of the subpixel hinting mode which is enabled since
freetype 2.7. Setting FREETYPE_PROPERTIES=truetype:interpreter-version=35
in the environment should help, at least it did for me.
See /usr/share/doc/libfreetype6/CHANGES.gz for all the gory details.
Cheers,
Sven
