[arch-general] GTK2 GUIs became a PITA after upgrade

[Peter Hofmann]

On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 06:54:20AM +0530, Sujith Manoharan wrote:
> For me, the recent fontconfig package in testing has changed the way
> bold fonts are rendered. I have downgraded fontconfig manually since
> I couldn't find a way to fix this.
> 
> With 2.11.94: http://msujith.org/dir/img/before-fontconfig-update.png
> With 2.11.95: http://msujith.org/dir/img/after-fontconfig-update.png

This may be caused by "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-hinting-slight.conf" which
is now shipped with fontconfig-2.11.95. You can override this either
system-wide or with a per-user configuration file.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/font_configuration#Hintstyle
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/font_configuration#Fontconfig_configuration

I, personally, just do this:

https://github.com/vain/dotfiles-pub/commit/94da51582297d6dd68397dae59d6b368aef10cba

Cheers
Peter