Re: GTK apps ignore subpixel hinting settings

2011-05-27 Thread Clemens Eisserer
Hi, > That's not what I said at all. Please don't put words in my mouth. Yeah right, you pointed out that firefox uses gtk+ for rendering, and that it links with cairo. So? Because its not a gtk app, it does not suffer from the problem? - Clemens -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.

Re: GTK apps ignore subpixel hinting settings

2011-05-27 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 27 May 2011 16:35:28 +0200 Clemens Eisserer wrote: > I hope there is a way without using gnome-settings daemon, > it used to work so well in the past and your setup seems rather complicated. I've been meaning to investigate changing the system defaults in all the /etc/font* stuff, but my

Re: GTK apps ignore subpixel hinting settings

2011-05-27 Thread Misha Shnurapet
27.05.2011, 21:59, "Clemens Eisserer" : > Hi, > > I am running Fedora-15 + xfce on my laptop with rgb subpixel hinting enabled, > however it seems all gtk2/gtk3 applications ignore that setting and > apply grayscale hinting instead. Yeah, I installed freetype-freeworld from RPMFusion and cairo-fre

Re: GTK apps ignore subpixel hinting settings

2011-05-27 Thread Clemens Eisserer
Hi, > Firefox uses GTK for widget rendering ('browse' button, etc). It also > uses[1] cairo to render fonts/pages (just like any other Gtk app). Firefox's "browse" button is a self-implemented XUL button not a gtk one, just using GTK+ for theming. Firefox just uses GTK for theming, but itself is

Re: GTK apps ignore subpixel hinting settings

2011-05-27 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Clemens Eisserer wrote: > However non-gtk apps like firefox Firefox uses GTK for widget rendering ('browse' button, etc). It also uses[1] cairo to render fonts/pages (just like any other Gtk app). $ ldd /usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.2/xulrunner-bin | grep gtk libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib64

Re: GTK apps ignore subpixel hinting settings

2011-05-27 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 27 May 2011 14:59:56 +0200 Clemens Eisserer wrote: > Any ideas what could be wrong? I don't know if it is the same in f15 as it was previously, but all GTK apps need the gnome-settings-daemon running at session startup time in order to read settings such as font rendering from it via dbus

GTK apps ignore subpixel hinting settings

2011-05-27 Thread Clemens Eisserer
Hi, I am running Fedora-15 + xfce on my laptop with rgb subpixel hinting enabled, however it seems all gtk2/gtk3 applications ignore that setting and apply grayscale hinting instead. However non-gtk apps like firefox and qt apps and even java apps apply subpixel hinting correctly: https://picasawe