Xft and XCursor

[Alexey Zinovyev]

On 17.06.2011 14:44, Lukas Sommer wrote:
>> GTK/Qt don't use XFT at all.
> 
> That's interesting. I didn't know this. However, at least the KDE font
> settings module changes the Xft.dpi value. Maybe fontconfig makes use of
> this one? So maybe this should be switched to use directly fontconfig?
> 
> Lukas Sommer
> 
> 
It's documented behavior.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Font_Configuration#Distorted_fonts
says that fontconfig defaults to Xft.dpi but has it's own DPI setting in
fonts.conf (and it works for all GTK/Qt software).
Qt doesn't depend on Xft (at least in my distro). GTK+ does, but only
for deprecated pango-xft backend.
Xft is still needed in other toolkits (like Tk) and in some pure Xlib
software (dzen2, xterm, rxvt).