There's a patch for cairo that greatly improves subpixel antialiasing (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cairo-lcd/cairo-lcd/lcd-filter.patch http://aur.archlin

There's a patch for cairo that greatly improves subpixel antialiasing (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cairo-lcd/cairo-lcd/lcd-filter.patch http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cairo-lcd/cairo-lcd/lcd-fi...), but it's not included in any official builds due to patent issues. Ubuntu has their own version of this patch, but it seems like it's disabled default -- there's instructions here on how to edit to appropriate config files: http://johan.kiviniemi.name/blag/ubuntu-fonts/ http://johan.kiviniemi.name/blag/ubuntu-fonts/ The available filter types are "lcdfilternone", "lcdfilterdefault", "lcdfilterlight", and "lcdfilterlegacy"