I want to disable anti-aliasing on my fonts because the fuzziness is 
getting to me. However, nothing I do seems to have any effect in GTK 
applications I use (including Firefox, Thunderbird, Gaim, and Evince).

My /etc/fonts/local.conf file is as follows:

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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
    <match target="font">
        <edit name="antialias" mode="assign">
            <bool>false</bool>
        </edit>
    </match>
</fontconfig>
======

I have also tried setting "GDK_USE_XFT = 0" before executing the 
programs. Nothing works for me.

Thanks for your help.

-Alex