Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2002 20:59:33 -0700 (PDT) From: James Earl <mtntrip@yahoo.com> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Antialiased fonts (Solved) Message-ID: <20020707035933.83537.qmail@web13901.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <1026012232.369.69.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com>
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--- Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> wrote: > On Sat, 2002-07-06 at 23:12, James Earl wrote: > > Problem solved: > > > > It's GDK_USE_XFT not USE_GDK_XFT > > Man, do I feel stupid. I have it set correctly at home, but not in my > instructions online. Sorry for the confusion. I need a vacation. > Thanks for reporting this typo. > > Joe No prob! I learned some new things along the way. Best of luck getting that vacation! James > > > > > Thanks, > > James > > > > --- Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> wrote: > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free > > http://sbc.yahoo.com > > > -- > PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free http://sbc.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message
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