Date: 06 Jul 2002 21:12:58 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: James Earl <mtntrip@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Antialiased fonts Message-ID: <1026004388.369.49.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <20020707002312.48473.qmail@web13906.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20020707002312.48473.qmail@web13906.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Sat, 2002-07-06 at 20:23, James Earl wrote: > > --- Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> wrote: > > On Fri, 2002-07-05 at 23:27, James Earl wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I've been unable to successfully get antialiased fonts working in GNOME 2.0. I'm running > > FreeBSD > > > 4.6-RELEASE and XFree86 4.2.0, with USE_GDK_XFT set to 1, and Type1 and webfonts specified in > > the > > > XftConfig file. I'm not very good with fonts and XFree86 yet, so I really don't know what I > > could > > > be doing wrong. > > > > Take a look at the FAQ at > > http://www.marcuscom.com/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q8 > > > > You need to make sure you have the freetype and type1 modules loaded in > > XF86Config, and that, if you're using gdm, your ~/.gnomerc file is > > executable. > > > > > > > > Do I need gdkpixbuf installed for antialiased fonts? (the only reason I ask is the "GDK" in > > > USE_GDK_XFT). > > > > No, gdk-pixbuf is a GNOME 1.4.1-only component. > > > > Joe > > I actually do have the freetype and type1 modules loaded. I should have mentioned that. > > To set USE_GDK_XFT to 1, I'm using 'setenv USE_GDK_XFT 1' from the command line. Once I'm in > GNOME I check to see that USE_GDK_XFT is set to 1 using 'echo $USE_GDK_XFT'. For my XftConfig > file I am using the one that is included with XFree86, except I have two dir lines: dir > "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1" and dir "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/webfonts" Are there any other > requirements for the XftConfig file to get antialiased fonts working? I just have the Type1 directory in my XftConfig, but things work fine. I also set the variable in my ~/.gnomerc file, and use gdm to start GNOME. You can see an example screenshot at http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/screenshots.html (the last screenshot) for an example of how it should look. > > There's no way that my GNOME 2.0 port could have been built without support for antialiased fonts > is there? Nope. It should be there by default. Perhaps the webfonts thing is screwing things up. Try commenting out that directory. Joe > > Thanks, > James > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free > http://sbc.yahoo.com > -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message
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