Subject: Re: bug#23137: 25.1.50; Subpixel rendering is broken when not running under gnome-session

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 05:46:14 +0300

> From: Matthew Leach <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked]
> Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 22:13:14 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> >> > What is "subpixel rendering"?
> >> 
> >> [1] gives an overview of what it is and the 'rgba' values in [2] show
> >> how to configure it.  I think MS use the term ClearType on their Windows
> >> platform.
> >
> > Then why do you think it's an Emacs problem?
> 
> I think it's an Emacs problem, because it is not behaving as configured,
> even though other GTK applications do.

What configuration options were supposed to tell Emacs to use subpixel
rendering?