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johnfound

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Registered: 2015-05-07

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XFCE (on Linux Mint 17) has only grayscale font smoothing

Hi all.

I am not very sure that here is the right place to ask the question, but as long as it is about XFCE desktop, I will try.

At first, my version of XFCE is: "Version 4.10, distributed by Xubuntu". The Linux distribution is Linux Mint 17

Playing with my netbook font rendering settings I noticed that all GTK applications renders the text only using grayscale antialiasing, regardless of the actuall settings. All other settings in the Appearance|Font works as intended, except "Sub-pixel order:" (RGBA in the config files) that do nothing at all.

In the same time Qt applications properly render the text with sub-pixel smoothing. The same for the WINE applications.

I checked all possible global and per-user config files and everything seems to be set properly. All these files contains RGBA set to "rgb".

The output of the "xrdb -query" is:

johnfound ~
$xrdb -query
*customization:      -color
Xcursor.theme:      DMZ-White
Xft.autohint:      0
Xft.hinting:      1
Xft.antialias:      1
Xft.hintstyle:      hintslight
Xft.rgba:      rgb
Xft.lcdfilter:      lcddefault
Xcursor.theme_core:      1

One example of the text rendering from the Thunar file manager can be seen on this picture:

P.S. I asked on several Linux forums, including Linux Mint one, but everyone (if answer) only suggests to check this or that config file - a work I made already many times.

Last edited by johnfound (2015-05-07 20:37:19)

johnfound

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From: Bulgaria

Registered: 2015-05-07

Posts: 4

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Re: XFCE (on Linux Mint 17) has only grayscale font smoothing

Installed XFCE 4.12 in hope that the broken part will be fixed... Unfortunately the subpixel antialiasing is still impossible.