Hi All, I'm curious why many scaled fonts look perfect in Ubuntu 16 (freetype 2.6.1) , but terrible in Ubuntu 20 (2.10.1).
To reproduce in Ubuntu 20: 1. $ xfontsel -scaled 2. Select these options: fndry=misc, family=fixed, pxlsz=17. 3. Observe ugly font. 4. Try other settings, notice how everything is ugly. I came across the issue when I had to get the X server working with a legacy application running in a VM. The app requests a scaled Liberation font in XLFD format. I ended up working around the issue by converting the font to a bitmap in Ubuntu 16 using Fontforge, then copying the file back to Ubuntu 20 and enabling bitmaps in freetype. So much pain! Is this behaviour a bug, or by design? Cheers, Ben
