KM Also look for any existing local or global configuration files that may override or set font settings silently (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Font_configuration). There may also be .conf files in /etc/X11 and subdirectories that change video output. There may be files in your home directory that tell your graphics driver to use special settings.
Great Input. Valuable info that i would have had to comb throught text to find.
KM The only other thing that I know I did is to try to make sure that temporal dithering is turned off by running an xrender command. But that's specific to the nouveau kernel mode driver and is probably a placebo because it should be turned off by default anyway (https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/Dithering/).
This as well. hard to believe its just a command line away.
If i may. Can I ask which type of lights you use? Also, do you have a monitor that utilizes dithering? Thank you.
KM My setup:
Graphics Card: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 295
Driver: nouveau + xf86-video-nouveau
Desktop: Xfce
Font settings (in Xfce Appearance): Antialiasing on, Antialiasing method: subpixel rendering (RGB ), Hinting slight, no custom DPI
Compositor: Xfce compositor, enabled (in Windows Manager Tweaks), Vsync on
My Setup:
Graphic Card: RX 570
Driver: AMDGPU-PRO, same as AMDGPU (opensource version) but with a proprietary overlay. Going between both.
Desktop: Mainly still Ubuntu, Also Windows and Manjaro
Font settings: stock in all systems
Compositor: just installed unity-system-compositor to see if it makes a difference.