No sub-pixel font rendering in Gnome3 or Cinnamon

Re: No sub-pixel font rendering in Gnome3 or Cinnamon
Post  by neon_overload » Thu Apr 19, 2012 10:31 pm

Workaround found!

Note: workaround has side-effects.

Enable the 10-sub-pixel-rgb.conf in /etc/fonts/conf.d by simlinking it into that folder from /etc/fonts/conf.avail

Change takes effect immediately (well, after a 1 second delay) - there doesn't seem to be a need to be a need to restart any services.

The side-effect is that now, sub-pixel rendering enabled regardless of the "Grayscale" and "RGBA" settings of gnome-tweak-tool and Cinnamon's settings: setting it to grayscale does not make it grayscale but keeps the sub-pixel. So it's the opposite problem to before, but in my case a better problem. Fonts are now looking beautiful on gnome3/cinnamon!