David Turner has cranked out patches for freetype2, libXft, and cairo to produce this ClearType-like shinyness, and hopefully clean up some of the nasty artifacts that the current subpixel rendering exhibits.
Ubuntu users can add the following to sources.list and install libcairo2 libxft2 and libfreetype6 packages.
1 | deb http://www.telemail.fi/mlind/ubuntu feisty fonts |
But I’m a Gentoo user now. (It takes me two days for compiling…)
The default AA performance is too bad on my laptop. So I wrote these ebuilds for libXft and cairo. Them have been applied LCD subpixel rendering patch.
You can download it by click this.
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