[Nix-dev] firefox 21 font rendering

Vladimír Čunát vcunat at gmail.com
Thu Jun 20 15:43:22 CEST 2013


On 06/20/2013 03:40 PM, Petar Bogdanovic wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 02:07:08PM +0200, Mathijs Kwik wrote:
>>
>> The old behavior (ff20) was not to use the system libraries and thus
>> not use the system-wide font rendering config, but use an oldschool
>> default, regardless of the rest of the system.
>
> With system-wide you mean settings in fonts.conf?

No, the rendering libraries (mainly cairo, it's about 
--enable-system-cairo flag).

>> Anyway, let's first try to find out why subpixel rendering doesn't
>> look good for you.
>> Please have a look at http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/img/subpixel.png to
>> find out the subpixel-order of your screen.
>
> I think that I see a very tiny black edge on the left side.  Which means
> RGB, I guess.

I haven't seen anything else than RGB, I think others are very rare 
(unless you rotate your monitor ;-).


Vlada


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