Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 114362
GDK_USE_XFT=0 does not work anymore
Last modified: 2007-04-18 13:02:14 EDT
Description of problem: $GDK_USE_XFT seems to be ignored in recent gtk2 snapshot so that every gtk-based application uses AA fonts now. This makes nearly all text based applications unusable on TFT monitors; tweaking with gnome-fonr-properties does not help. Some applications can be cured by assigning a bitmap font as system font, but important applications like browsers are using the fonts suggested by the page. Therefore, this does not help really. KDE/QT knows such a setting (qtconfig - >Fonts -> Enable Anti-Aliased...) and gtk-2.2. supports it too, so it seems to be doable to add this functionality. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gtk2-2.3.2-2
Not a bug, the code has been removed for GTK+-2.3.x. (And hadn't been maintained for several years, never worked well. It's an *entirely* different code path.) I'm not sure what's different about TFT monitors. Many of us use antialiased fonts on laptops, etc, and like it. (Since you mention GNOME, I don't think it's bug 88259) If you want precanned bitmap fonts, just put them in ~/.fonts or /usr/share/fonts (see the release notes for details).