Created attachment 4179 Add LCD filter to the appearance dialog In the latest version of xfsettingsd the Xft.lcdfilter can be set. However, the appearance dialog doesn't give you this option. The provided patch adds a combo box for setting lcdfilter. On a side note: The only Xft setting for both cairo and libxft which can't be set in de dialog and which is in the xfsettingsd is Xft.hinting. "Xft.hinting: (bool)// FC_HINTING Whether the rasterizer should use hinting" I wonder what this does in relation to Xft.hintstyle. And its value is currently set to -1
Created attachment 4180 Disable settings which have no effect This patch is an addition to the previous patch. This will disable the RGBA and LCD filter combo box if they have no effect. This might not be a good idea. If an application forces antialias on and doesn't set to other settings than these settings can't be easily changed (You have to temporarily enable antialiasing). On the other hand, an application doing this might be considered bad.
So we agreed to put this on docs.xfce.org since it does not work on all setups. http://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-settings/appearance?&#fonts