Bug 133709

Summary:	KDE causes GTK+ applications to lose antialiasing when rendering fonts
Product:	[I don't know] kde	Reporter:	Vasilis Vasaitis <vvasaitis>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Stephan Kulow <coolo>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	des
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Debian testing
OS:	Linux
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Description Vasilis Vasaitis 2006-09-07 15:15:57 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.4)
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages

Hello,

  On my system, Debian unstable with KDE 3.5.4, when I start a KDE X session and attempt to run GTK+ applications, they render fonts without antialiasing, which makes them somewhat ugly. It appears that KDE is causing this by setting the X resource Xft.antialias to 0; setting it to 1 manually with xrdb fixes the problem. The problem also seems to go away by adding the following line to ~/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals, inside the [General] section:

XftAntialias=true

  Still, this should be the default, no?

Thanks,
Vasilis

Comment 1 Philip Rodrigues 2006-09-08 15:48:27 UTC

Do you have antialiasing turned off in control center -> appearance and themes -> fonts?

Comment 2 Vasilis Vasaitis 2006-09-08 16:06:33 UTC

  No, of course not, and in fact KDE applications have antialiased fonts at all times.

Comment 3 Josh Berry 2006-09-14 17:28:13 UTC

I also have this issue, since KDE 3.5.4.  (3.5.3 behaved as expected.)  As Vasilis observed, it seems to be due to KDE setting "Xft.antialias" to 0 in xrdb.

The problem persists even when I turn off "Apply colors to non-KDE applications" in the "Colors" control panel.

To me, it seems like very broken behavior for KDE to even be messing with that setting at all -- Qt obviously ignores it (all my KDE applications respect the antialiasing settings in "Fonts"), so why should KDE care?

Comment 4 Philip Rodrigues 2007-01-30 19:19:01 UTC

There's been a change in 3.5.6 that probably affects this. Can you test again with 3.5.6 and report on whether it works?

Comment 5 Vasilis Vasaitis 2007-02-07 01:47:59 UTC

Sorry for the delay, I was hoping that maybe Debian would ship 3.5.6 packages -- but then I noticed that they've been incorporating patches from it anyway in the current 3.5.5 packages, so I decided to give it a try anyway.

So yes, right now the font configuration dialog sets XftAntialias in kdeglobals to the correct value, and everything is working fine. As far as I'm concerned, this can be closed. Thanks.

Comment 6 Vasilis Vasaitis 2007-11-28 23:52:53 UTC

Hi, I'm closing this bug since it hasn't been an issue for ages now, if anyone still has these problems then feel free to reopen.