Lxappearance and font-hinting

Hi archers,
I was trying to use lxappearance to change the font hinting settings. But, every time I open it again, it shows "Full" hinting style.
Also, I noticed that lxappearance is creating two files: ~/.gtkrc-2.0 and ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini. As far as I can tell, the settings in there are correct after saving them with lxappearance.
Is lxappearance reading the settings from another place than it's writing to?
Am I missing any font configuration file? Is this even the right way to turn off font-hinting? (Or rather set it to "slight").
edit: maybe I should add, I am using awesome WM.
Thanks.
Last edited by loltill (2013-07-16 22:44:34)

I explored this some time ago and one issue I had was that I had to reset the font cache to see the changes.

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