[SOLVED] How to turn on font hinting and font anti-aliasing?

I wanted to configure hinting and anti-aliasing, although I've never used fontconfig before.
I had been reading https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/font_configuration and I have found some contradictions.
First it says "Configuration can be done globally through /etc/fonts/fonts.conf" and then immidiatelly after that it says "This file is replaced during fontconfig updates and shouldn't be edited".
Then it says per-user path ~/.fonts.conf is deprecated in turn for $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/fontconfig/fonts.conf with no indication where should this "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME" actually be.
I get that I am supposed to put my custom XML "somewhere":
<match target="font">
<edit name="hinting" mode="assign"><bool>true</bool></edit>
<edit name="hintstyle" mode="assign"><const>hintfull</const></edit>
<edit name="antialias" mode="assign"><bool>true</bool></edit>
</match>
But I have no idea where?
Last edited by choosegoose (2015-02-02 23:22:56)

Normally the $XDG_CONFIG_HOME variable points to .config in your /home/<user> directory.
So the path that you would use would be: /home/<user>/.config/fontconfig
Please note that it's DOT config.
HTH

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