Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 02:03:20 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: bernard.el-hagin@lido-tech.net Cc: FreeBSD User Questions List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Anti aliased fonts in FBSD Message-ID: <1070521400.26031.42.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <klmtsvkr70fgbvd1hdfv6nuqv1m97mompj@4ax.com> References: <n9itsv0qitnivjqoeqlp08c5pculoui4ik@4ax.com> <1070518494.26031.21.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <78ktsvgnq7f5n98np0vkgkdtp2q4qrhn0v@4ax.com> <1070519258.26031.32.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <acltsvck8h49np1mdmmnv17iga4602fgbt@4ax.com> <1070520700.26031.39.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <klmtsvkr70fgbvd1hdfv6nuqv1m97mompj@4ax.com>
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--=-lsW0AwIia1aw/Tzn4f6G Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 01:58, Bernard El-Hagin wrote: > owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org wrote: >=20 > >On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 01:41, Bernard El-Hagin wrote: > >> owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org wrote: > >>=20 > >> >On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 01:17, Bernard El-Hagin wrote: > >> >> owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org wrote: > >> >>=20 > >> >> >On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 00:46, Bernard El-Hagin wrote: > >> >> >> Hello, > >> >> >>=20 > >> >> >> When I install some appliactions from ports they have nice > >> >> >> anti-aliased fonts by default (gaim, for example). Unfortunately= others > >> >> >> do not (most notably gVim and also LinCVS, both of which are cap= able of > >> >> >> using them). Where exactly is this governed? How do I tell appli= cations > >> >> >> to always use anti-aliased fonts? I am running CURRENT. > >> >> > > >> >> >There's a section on this in the FreeBSD handbook: > >> >> > > >> >> >http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-fonts.= html > >> >>=20 > >> >>=20 > >> >> Thanks to that section of the handbook I have enabled anti-aliased = fonts > >> >> in X, but it doesn't explain why some applications use those fonts = by > >> >> default and others don't. That's my real problem. > >> > > >> >Yes it does. The last paragraph states: > >> > > >> >"Anti-aliasing should be enabled the next time the X server is starte= d. > >> >However, programs must know how to take advantage of it. At present, = the > >> >Qt toolkit does, so the entire KDE environment can use anti-aliased > >> >fonts (see Section 5.7.3.2 on KDE for details). Gtk+ and GNOME can al= so > >> >be made to use anti-aliasing via the ``Font'' capplet (see Section > >> >5.7.1.3 for details). By default, Mozilla 1.2 and greater will > >> >automatically use anti-aliasing. To disable this, rebuild Mozilla wit= h > >> >the -DWITHOUT_XFT flag." > >> > > >> >So, do you have gVim built with gtk+-2 support, and have you done wha= t > >> >section 5.7.3.2 tells you for KDE/Qt apps (i.e. set QT_XFT to true)? > >>=20 > >>=20 > >> I don't use KDE nor Gnome, but as I understand it any application whic= h > >> is built with either Qt or Gtk+-2 support should be capable of using > >> anti-aliased fonts. What I'm asking is how do I: > > > >Yes, per the cross-referenced sections in the above paragraph, you may > >have to do some additional setting of variables if you do not use the > >respective desktops. > > > >>=20 > >>=20 > >> 1. find out before building an application whether it will be built wi= th > >> support for either of those, > > > >As things are right now, looking at the ports' Makefiles is your best > >bet. >=20 >=20 > OK, that's what I was looking for. Thanks. >=20 >=20 > >> 2. make sure that such support is added if it's not there by default > >> (which I should be able to establish in step 1). > > > >Once you figure out the variable to set, you can add it to make.conf or > >pkgtools.conf (or both). >=20 >=20 > Does this mean that the name of the variable governing the AA fonts will > be the same for any application which can use them? That's cool. No. WITH[OUT]_XFT is what some ports use, but some ports will use AA as long as they're built with a supporting toolkit (e.g. vim). In those cases, you have to set the make variable to enable the port to build with that toolkit (e.g. WITH_GTK2). Joe >=20 >=20 > Thanks for your help. >=20 >=20 > Cheers, > Bernard > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-lsW0AwIia1aw/Tzn4f6G Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA/ztw4b2iPiv4Uz4cRAii2AJ4t0TI16DrSefV6NDicW7zMCW2ZvACeMjoy ZtXzDKtjkoQArrqNkfWt1LA= =oKI3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-lsW0AwIia1aw/Tzn4f6G--
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