The problem is not with the LCD filter, it's whether the Ubuntu copy of
freetype is changing the autohint style.  When choosing each of the four
options the fonts normally change their shapes in obvious ways.  In
Ubuntu gutsy, only the "none" and "full" buttons make any difference.
Someone in gutsy changed the "medium" and "full" buttons to do nothing
more than turn on and off the monospace lcd filter to keep things
simple, but this appears to break the autohinting configuration.  This
could be due to the fact that Ubuntu normally ships with the autohinter
disabled.  In any case this needs to be fixed so that the buttons do
what they say, that is, adjust autohinter hint styles.

In addition, manually editting ~/.fonts.conf to use the various hint
styles does not seem to make any difference so this is therefore a
problem with Ubuntu's fontconfig patches.

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fontconfig does not honor hintslight, hintmedium, hintfull
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/200707
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