Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 01:27:38 -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: <1070519258.26031.32.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <78ktsvgnq7f5n98np0vkgkdtp2q4qrhn0v@4ax.com> References: <n9itsv0qitnivjqoeqlp08c5pculoui4ik@4ax.com> <1070518494.26031.21.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <78ktsvgnq7f5n98np0vkgkdtp2q4qrhn0v@4ax.com>
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--=-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--
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