Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: openoffice.org
Hello,
The Sub-Pixel smoothed fonts looks different in OpenOffice.org compared
to other applications. The fonts look very nice and smooth in GTK+ apps
but not in OpenOffice.org Fonts do look anti-aliased, but it appears
more blocky for some reason. In order to fix the problem, running the
command :
echo "Xft.lcdfilter: lcddefault" >> ~/.Xresources
I think that the fix should be implemented in future versions for a
better user experience. Also, if you install Ubuntu instead of Xubuntu,
run the OpenOffice.org application, you will not get any font smoothing
problems in Xfce installed via xfce4-desktop package. The problem
happens when the xubuntu-gdm-theme is installed, which seems to run set-
gconf-defaults and causes the problems in font smoothing. Removing the
package doesn't fix the problem.
Also, the following doesn't fix the problem :
Removing home folder configuration for xfce, gconf and openoffice.
Finally, I think the reason why this problem isn't in gnome is because
it is taken care of via gnome-settings-daemon, something not available
in xfce. Ideally, OpenOffice.org should be configured to respect the
lcdfilter option, and I don't know how to that properly. But the fix I
mentioned seems to be a good workaround, maybe add a script to do that
in the package xubuntu-default-settings ?
** Affects: openoffice.org (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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OpenOffice.org Font LCD Filter not respected in Xubuntu
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/486315
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