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Weird font colors - subpixel problem

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https://bbs.archlinux.org – I think what you can try is to symlink one of those files into /etc/fonts/conf.d, and see if your fonts look better afterward.To set to try BGR,ln -s /etc/fonts/conf.avail/10-sub-pixel-bgr.conf /etc/fonts/conf.dAlso, it may be your desktop environment will let you set this instead of symlinking.  I know KDE lets you select subpixel order, as well as xfce4.   Probably gnome as well, but I havn't run gnome in a long time. johni https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=56747 2012-09-14T20:06:21Z (HowTos)

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Submitted by Danial on 09/14/2012

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If you don't have any custom rules, you shouldn't have a local.conf either. Read the content of fonts.conf.EDIT: Packages often put their fontconfig files in /etc/fonts/conf.avail/ and symlink to them from /etc/fonts/conf.d/.

mariusmeyer https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=25244

2012-09-20T20:39:23Z

I'm trying out the secondary monitor with portrait layout, and I want to disable subpixel font antialiasing.

I have both turned it off to "Grayscale" in gnome-tweak-tool and created a symlink to 10-no-sub-pixel.conf:

/etc/fonts/conf.d $ ll total 8 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 Apr 9 10:37 10-no-sub-pixel.conf -> ../conf.avail/10-no-sub-pixel.conf lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Apr 9 10:50 11-lcdf

Andreas Radke wrote: The fontconfig 2.10.1 update overwrites symlinks created by the former package version.

This solution worked well for me till the changes in Fontconfig configuration. After that change I had to move the ~/.fonts.conf content (mentioned above) in /etc/fonts/local.conf (this is global setting). Now it works well again with Chromium. $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/fontconfig/fonts.conf should work for per-user settings.

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husainaloos wrote:What am I doing wrong?Probably missing /etc/fonts/conf.d/51-local.conf, which calls /etc/fonts/local.conf

brebs https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=10353

2013-05-13T10:41:17Z

Check your rules in /etc/fonts/conf.d/Maybe you have a rule for e.g. embeddedbitmap - could be that embeddedbitmap is now disabled.Strangely enough, the new fontconfig wants to install 10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf, which it itself moans about!

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postino87 wrote:I'm also receiving the warning about fontconfig even if i've alredy follow the procedure explained hereFontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf", line 9: reading configurations from ~/.fonts.conf is deprecated.https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 7#p1157957

skunktrader https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=34000

2012-09-07T10:59:

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OK then: before you do anything else, please take a look at your /etc/fonts/conf.avail and /etc/fonts/conf.d. This is where the font engine is actually tuned. The file 65-nonlatin.conf is the one when you can set priority of your non-latin fonts for a certain language.

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In Kubuntu 12.04 using man fonts.conf i read:

~/.fonts.conf is the conventional location for per-user font configuration, although the actual location is specified in the global fonts.conf file.

But in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf i cannot find any settings giving me that local conf file path.

I am asking this, because in 12.10 the same command give me:

reading configurations from ~/.fonts.conf