Bug#714279: fontconfig-config: Not correct view anti-aliasing fonts and incorrect visualization
The files in conf.avail/ (symlinked in conf.d/) are there for system wide configuration. The use of append there is right, because that leaves the choice to each user to change their config, if they want (using assign in ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf ). The problem arises because fonts options in the desktop environment usually override the default fontconfig configuration, even if you don't touch any fonts setting in the DE. For example Gnome3 default config enable the autohinter and set the hintstyle to full. If you enable subpixel hinting in conf.d/ you will get a fuzzy result, because autohinter is not designed to work with subpixel (the subpixel setting is not override because Gnome3 defaults doesn't touch this option). The best thing to do is to set the DE fonts settings to be equal to the conf.d/ settings and/or the user's settings (in Gnome3 you can change settings with gnome-tweak-tool), because DE fonts settings will have always the highest priority, at least on Xfce where I'm testing it. BTW it looks like Gnome and Xfce (and maybe others) uses Xft, that have priority on fontconfig: maybe the bug should be reported to the DEs teams to make them use fontconfig instead of Xft? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#714279: fontconfig-config: Not correct view anti-aliasing fonts and incorrect visualization.
control: severity -1 important This is a non-severe issue and has a straightforward workaround. Best wishes, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#714279: fontconfig-config: Not correct view anti-aliasing fonts and incorrect visualization.
Package: fontconfig-config Version: 2.10.2-2 Followup-For: Bug #714279 I encountered the same problems. By fiddling some configuration bits, I was able to restore the previous good font rendering: 1. Fix the symlink for /etc/fonts/conf.d/11-lcdfilter-default.conf (it was pointing to /etc/fonts/conf.avail/, but the file is now in /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/. 2. Change append back to assign in contradiction to the comments in 10-autohint.conf, 10-subpixel-rgb.conf, and 11-lcdfilter-default.conf. 3. Run fc-cache -f and restart apps to get new configuration to be fully active. -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.9.2 (SMP w/12 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages fontconfig-config depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.50 ii fonts-freefont-ttf [ttf-freefont] 20120503-1 ii gsfonts-x110.22 ii ttf-bitstream-vera 1.10-8 ii ttf-dejavu-core2.33+svn2514-3 ii ttf-freefont 20120503-1 ii ucf3.0027 fontconfig-config recommends no packages. fontconfig-config suggests no packages. -- debconf information: * fontconfig/subpixel_rendering: Always * fontconfig/enable_bitmaps: false * fontconfig/hinting_type: Native -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#714279: fontconfig-config: Not correct view anti-aliasing fonts and incorrect visualization.
I can confirm Matthew's fix is working for me. I didn't have 11-lcdfilter-default.conf nor 10-subpixel-rgb.conf linked or enabled, so all I needed to do is change append to assign in 10-autohint.conf to get back to font rendering that didn't make my eyes spontaneously self-combust. My eyes thank you Matthew, -- M -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#714279: fontconfig-config: Not correct view anti-aliasing fonts and incorrect visualization.
Package: fontconfig-config Version: 2.10.2-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? The fonts are not shown correctly, they are smaller than normal. * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? thing more Ask the installation, deleting files essential to Windows fonts and dejavu * What was the outcome of this action? Fonts smaller and less anti-aliasing * What outcome did you expect instead? The same fonts and display the version 2.9.0.7-1. : ( Files changes: ~/.fonts.config at ~/.config/fonts/fonts.config ~/.fontconfig at ~/.cache/fontconfig ~/.fonts at ~/.local/share/fonts And creates links this directories. File fonts.conf: ?xml version='1.0'? !DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'fonts.dtd' fontconfig match target=font edit mode=assign name=rgba constrgb/const /edit /match match target=font edit mode=assign name=hinting booltrue/bool /edit /match match target=font edit mode=assign name=hintstyle consthintfull/const /edit /match match target=font edit mode=assign name=antialias booltrue/bool /edit /match /fontconfig *** End of the template - remove these lines *** -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.9.5 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=es_ES@euro, LC_CTYPE=es_ES@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages fontconfig-config depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.50 ii fonts-freefont-ttf [ttf-freefont] 20120503-1 ii gsfonts-x110.22 ii ttf-bitstream-vera 1.10-8 ii ttf-dejavu-core2.33+svn2514-3 ii ttf-freefont 20120503-1 ii ucf3.0027 fontconfig-config recommends no packages. fontconfig-config suggests no packages. -- debconf information: * fontconfig/subpixel_rendering: Always * fontconfig/enable_bitmaps: true * fontconfig/hinting_type: Autohinter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
