[ltp] fontconfig setup

Osho GG linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Fri, 5 Nov 2004 01:08:29 -0800


The option is, rgba and not argb. I have the following in my ~/.fonts.conf

  <edit mode="assign" name="rgba" >
   <const>rgb</const>
  </edit>

Osho

On Fri, 05 Nov 2004 09:31:58 +0100, Stephan Frank
<sfrank@cs.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
> Hallo everybody,
> 
> I have a small question concerning the setup of fontconfig. Currently my
> system is all setup and I am a happy user of antialiased fonts on my
> R50. However, I noticed some slight greenish and reddish shadows on the
> antialised glyphs. I know that this has to do with the specific setup of
> the RGB-subpixels of the TFT, which can be specified in the XFT-Setup
> such that the subpixel antialiasing of freetype/fontconfig can take this
> layout into account to avoid the additional coloring. This is done via
> the 'argb' option in the fonts.conf file. However, every possibility I
> tried (rgb,bgr,vrgb,vbgr) had no effect at all. So to sum it up I have
> two question:
> 
> 1) There is the /etc/fonts/fonts.conf and /etc/X11/XftConfig file where
> one can setup the 'argb' option. Which is the right one to change, the
> former, the latter or both?
> 
> 2) has anyone already found out which is the correct pixel order to
> specify on a 15" Flexiview 1400x1050 display of a R50 to avoid the
> greenish and reddish shadowing?
> 
> Thank you very much for any suggestions.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Stephan
> 
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Osho