fonts are all messed up since libXft-2.3.0
Submitted by arno
Assigned to Xorg Project Team
Description
Created attachment 58262 screenshot with libxft 2.2
Hi, since libXft-2.3.0, my fonts look really faint in my xterm. Also the space between the characters looks much bigger.
See attached screenshots.
I ran a git bisect on libXft git repository.
Unfortunately, libXft crashed on many commits. So, it's really difficult to determine the exact commits where the bug first appear.
here is the result:
There are only 'skip'ped commits left to test. The first bad commit could be any of: 21a59c10 550b2f76 6f1d7bcd 301029c9
Here are the matching links: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXft/commit/?id=21a59c10803582c8f90d3b5f32e8f0240c050adf http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXft/commit/?id=550b2f76401c292d982700b60326e0a837e391b4 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXft/commit/?id=6f1d7bcdd461b1f6cc64370793f52d7c170187d0 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXft/commit/?id=301029c9a1d9429009eaf08bb726357d4e94780d
So, it may have something to do with the "Subpixel LCD text rendering improvements"
Attachment 58262, "screenshot with libxft 2.2":
