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fontconfig package

  1. Bug #63403
  2. Comment #14

Comment 14 for bug 63403

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Xavier (chantry-xavier) wrote :

The font settings you chose in gnome preferences, "subpixel smoothing" (subpixel + full hinting), aren't used by firefox which is apparently using "best shapes" (grayscale + medium hinting)
Gnome exports Xft resources (see output of: xrdb -q |grep Xft)
You should see rgba=rgb (subpixel), and hintstyle=hintfull (full hinting)

Now I'm not sure why firefox doesn't use that. Maybe you've conflicting fontconfig settings. Do you have a ~/.fonts.conf file?