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Demystifying Font Appearance on Linux : The Proper Way

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Can someone enlighten me on the way font appearance (hinting, antialiasing) works? As far as I understand, There is .fonts.conf There are individual font settings for Gnome, XFCE and KDE (or do they just modify .fonts.conf; or else where do they keep their font configurations?) For XFCE, it is in ~…

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/etc/fonts hold Xft settings, while .fonts.conf is a per-user override of /etc/fonts/* DEs set their settings using X settings daemon (there are several of them, one in each DE, and also several standalone for use with lightweight WMs) applications …

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