Bug 57445

Summary:	: Hinting doesn't match Xft settings (when GNOME or KDE is not used)
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	d1337r
Component:	Libreoffice	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	CC:	jmadero.dev, qubit
Version:	3.6.3.2 release
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:	BSA
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description d1337r 2012-11-23 08:01:22 UTC

Problem description: 

Steps to reproduce:
1. Log into a clean Openbox session

2. Write the following into .Xresources:

Xft.rgba: none
Xft.dpi: 96
Xft.antialias: true
Xft.hinting: true
Xft.hintstyle: hintfull
Xft.lcdfilter: lcddefault

and launch "xrdb -merge .Xresources" from the terminal.

3. Run LibreOffice.

Current behavior:

The fonts will not be hinted at all.

Expected behavior:

The fonts should be hinted fully, as specified in the rest of software that uses Xft (GTK+ and Qt software does so).

Platform (if different from the browser): 

Debian wheezy amd64

Comment 1 Michael Meeks 2013-12-12 16:20:53 UTC

Patches most welcome - not using either the gtk+ or qt integration is a high-road to using under-tested & maintained code. In particular I'd recommend you use the gtk+ frontend. At some stage we ought to deprecate the raw-x thing - but it's quite useful for testing currently - and it is shared by gtk2/kde3/kde4/tde backends I guess.

Comment 2 Robinson Tryon (qubit) 2014-02-03 15:18:24 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> Patches most welcome - not using either the gtk+ or qt integration is a
> high-road to using under-tested & maintained code. In particular I'd
> recommend you use the gtk+ frontend. At some stage we ought to deprecate the
> raw-x thing - but it's quite useful for testing currently - and it is shared
> by gtk2/kde3/kde4/tde backends I guess.

Whiteboard: (Removing NeedAdvice)

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