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  1. Bug #264254
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Comment 2 for bug 264254

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Joe_Bishop (denis-cheremisov-gmail) wrote : Re: [Bug 264254] Re: subpixel rendering in intrepid

Hm, well. But it is the GUI issue, and should be changeable through GUI,
not only through editing config files.

On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 09:13 +0000, Tobias Wolf wrote:
> The reason is this:
>
> cairo (1.7.4-0ubuntu1) intrepid; urgency=low
>
> * New upstream version:
> [...]
> - LCD subpixel filtering using FreeType
> [...]
> * debian/patches/00list: Remove lcd-filter patch now applied upstream
>
> I just found out that when I add this to my .fonts.conf, then the newer
> LCD filter mode is used again:
>
> <edit mode="assign" name="lcdfilter">
> <const>lcddefault</const>
> </edit>
>
> The other possible values are lcdlight and lcdlegacy. I guess that
> lcdlegacy is now used as default, contrary to what the attribute names
> suggest.
>