http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1054071 http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1054071#c1 Michal Srb <msrb@suse.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |CONFIRMED CC| |msrb@suse.com, | |pgajdos@suse.com Assignee|xorg-maintainer-bugs@forge. |msrb@suse.com |provo.novell.com | Flags| |needinfo?(pgajdos@suse.com) --- Comment #1 from Michal Srb <msrb@suse.com> --- The new thing in Tumbleweed is fontconfig 2.7 which brings version 40 of the hinting engine. Version 40 is trying to look more like ClearType on Windows and it ignores horizontal hinting, see here: https://www.freetype.org/freetype2/docs/subpixel-hinting.html The results look more or less acceptable if antialiasing is enabled, but without antialiasing they look pretty bad - like if no hinting was enabled. So if you disable antialiasing you may also want to switch to version 35. It can be done by setting environmental variable: FREETYPE_PROPERTIES="truetype:interpreter-version=35" It would be great if it could be done using a fontconfig configuration, but AFAIK it is not possible yet. In my personal opinion, it would be best to keep using 35 by default, but that means going against upstream and we would need some community agreement on it. However, the fact that some applications look fine on your system and ftview shows "engine: v35" on your screenshot makes me think that you already found about this variable and set it, but for some reason it does not work in all applications. Can you share your font configuration? Any changes you did in /etc/fonts/conf.d, ~/.fonts.conf, .fonts.conf.d, environmental variables, etc. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.