<?xml version='1.0'?><!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'fonts.dtd'><fontconfig> <match target="font" > <edit mode="assign" name="hinting"> <bool>true</bool> </edit> </match> <match target="font" > <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle"> <const>hintfull</const> </edit> </match> <match target="font" > <edit mode="assign" name="antialias"> <bool>true</bool> </edit> </match> <match target="font" > <edit mode="assign" name="rgba"> <const>rgb</const> </edit> </match> <match target="font"> <edit mode="assign" name="lcdfilter"> <const>lcdlegacy</const> </edit> </match></fontconfig>
Have you tried going into the font configuration to see if that changes anything? There's a blog post about it here: http://feeblemind.tuxfamily.org/blog/index.php?post/2013/02/02/Linux-Mint%2C-MATE-and-fonts