[Bug 839458] Re: Fonts suddenly started using full hinting instead of slight, without changing any configuration

[The Fiddler]

This issue goes away on a clean install, it only appears on an upgrade
install. Installing gnome-tweak-tool and resetting font settings also works!

@Jay S, this is a slightly different issue (i.e. Unity reading font
configuration from somewhere else than the rest of the system, while in my
case the whole system is reading configuration from some unknown place).

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Title:
  Fonts suddenly started using full hinting instead of slight, without
  changing any configuration

Status in “fontconfig” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  After running the latest updates for oneiric (as of 02Sept2011), my
  fonts suddenly became fully-hinted and ugly. They were slightly-hinted
  before.

  Note that I have not changed *any* configuration options. I'm using an
  alpha3 Oneiric installation upgraded all the way to beta1. Hinting
  changed all by itself (and it's ugly!)

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: fontconfig 2.8.0-3ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-9.15-generic 3.0.3
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-9-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Fri Sep  2 13:24:35 2011
  SourcePackage: fontconfig
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-08-26 (7 days ago)

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