AFAIK, the fedora-patches (which should provide fontconfig-support) aren't applied in ubuntu. Simply hardcoding other settings wouldn't fix the issue. Only full fontconfig-support would be a solution for every setup possible.
-- [Edgy] font hinting does not work with libfreetype6 v. 2.2.1 https://launchpad.net/bugs/54776 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
