On Dienstag, 29. Januar 2008 08:54 Maik Beckmann wrote: As i see your name: If you don't understand my "fantastic" english my natural language is german.-)
I switched to vrgb and how the shadows are gone. Even Qt3 and Qt4 font are now the same.
Nice to hear but a little bit strange. I must admit that after thinking too much about it i stop analyzing and differ only "looks good" or "looks bad".-)
However, the fact that the font rendering differs if rgba is set to rgb and do not if it's set to vrgb sounds like black magic to me. I would really like to figure out what is going on.
Good luck but this all with fonts remembers me at my first analog monitor which have a "Advanced Features Setting" where i don't understand the most.-) Only for the info here is my /etc/fonts/conf.d (The two *-MyDejaVu.conf differs from the originals only that DejaVu is on the top): 10-autohint.conf 10-sub-pixel-rgb.conf 11-no_autohint_for_bold_fonts.conf 20-fix-globaladvance.conf 20-lohit-gujarati.conf 20-unhint-small-vera.conf 30-amt-aliases.conf 30-replace-bitmap-fonts.conf 30-urw-aliases.conf 40-generic-MyDejaVu.conf 49-sansserif.conf 50-user.conf 51-local.conf 60-latin-MyDejaVu.conf 65-fonts-persian.conf 65-nonlatin.conf 69-unifont.conf 80-delicious.conf 90-synthetic.conf
Can you please try rgb instead of vrgb, just for comparison?
I do this and there was not such a difference as for you and i have definitely no shadows. The most and only difference is in the konsole (Dejavu Sans Mono).
PS: how can one figure out which rgba mode is supported by the hardware?
In a perfect world it is in the manual of your monitor. But as example i have a NEC 2190UXp (connected with DVI to a GeForce 7600 GS and driver version 169.09) and instead the manual says that it use rgb it looks better with vrgb. So i must say that in the most cases i prefer my normal try&error game: - start konsole plus 'ls -la' - change something and press apply - start a new - konsole plus 'ls -la' ... and so on This works better for me than analyzing it.-) But if you realy wants this here be the links which helps me in the past (i hope my suspicion that you can understand german is correct): http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Xorg_and_Fonts http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antialiasing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fontconfig http://wiki.unixboard.de/index.php/FreeBSD_-_Bessere_Schriften http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Schriften http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Schriftbild_verbessern http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fonts/DejavuFeedbackCall See you, Attila