From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 3 22:27:49 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A361216A4CE for ; Wed, 3 Dec 2003 22:27:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from ms-smtp-03-eri0.southeast.rr.com (ms-smtp-03-lbl.southeast.rr.com [24.25.9.102]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0680143FD7 for ; Wed, 3 Dec 2003 22:27:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (rdu74-159-108.nc.rr.com [24.74.159.108])hB46RiCH003363; Thu, 4 Dec 2003 01:27:45 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.1.4] (shumai.marcuscom.com [192.168.1.4]) hB46RDu5002542; Thu, 4 Dec 2003 01:27:13 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) From: Joe Marcus Clarke To: bernard.el-hagin@lido-tech.net In-Reply-To: <78ktsvgnq7f5n98np0vkgkdtp2q4qrhn0v@4ax.com> References: <1070518494.26031.21.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <78ktsvgnq7f5n98np0vkgkdtp2q4qrhn0v@4ax.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-tiKbmOd0wpmflWfV/4+s" Organization: MarcusCom, Inc. Message-Id: <1070519258.26031.32.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 01:27:38 -0500 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.60 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on creme-brulee.marcuscom.com X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine cc: FreeBSD User Questions List Subject: Re: Anti aliased fonts in FBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 06:27:49 -0000 --=-tiKbmOd0wpmflWfV/4+s Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 other= s > >> do not (most notably gVim and also LinCVS, both of which are capable o= f > >> using them). Where exactly is this governed? How do I tell application= s > >> 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 started. 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 also 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 with the -DWITHOUT_XFT flag." So, do you have gVim built with gtk+-2 support, and have you done what section 5.7.3.2 tells you for KDE/Qt apps (i.e. set QT_XFT to true)? Joe >=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 --=-tiKbmOd0wpmflWfV/4+s 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/ztPab2iPiv4Uz4cRAsIyAJ9k1gsb28SVXPHA2u2Ak+Pmou5gVgCfX4X2 ruWV4CI/sU/tB03oloNQVbk= =bnKD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-tiKbmOd0wpmflWfV/4+s--