Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 23:58:20 -0800 From: Mark Edwards <mark@antsclimbtree.com> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gnome 2 on FreeBSD 4.7p3 -- multiple issues Message-ID: <EC5E7A12-3A71-11D7-9E22-000A278CC960@antsclimbtree.com> In-Reply-To: <1044604432.6865.32.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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On Thursday, February 6, 2003, at 11:53 PM, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
>>>> 3) I followed the directions to get font anti-aliasing working, and
>>>> I
>>>> do have GDK_USE_XFT set to 1 via .gnomerc. However, I don't see any
>>>> difference in anti-aliasing. There was some anti-aliasing before I
>>>> did anything at all, for instance in mozilla some fonts are
>>>> anti-aliased. But there is none in the gnome2 desktop even after
>>>> the
>>>> new settings. What am I missing? Do I just need to add the proper
>>>> fonts or something?
>>>
>>> You need to make sure your XftConfig is setup correctly, and you have
>>> the latest freetype2. It hardly merits any work now as I'm on the
>>> verge
>>> of committing GNOME 2.2 which no longer requires GDK_USE_XFT.
>>
>> I've done a bit of work on this, despite your suggestion not to, and
>> I'm still coming up short. I found a tutorial that suggests
>>
>> xdpyinfo | grep -c -i render
>>
>> as a test to see if XFree86 is including render support. Doing this
>> on
>> my system returns 0 instead 1 which the tutorial says is necessary for
>> anti-aliasing. The tutorial says "wait until XFree86 supports Render
>> on your graphics card." This is an old machine with an ATI Mach64 CT,
>> so I would believe it is unsupported, however ...
>>
>> What's strange is that anti-aliasing is clearly occurring in a few
>> places for me, most notably in Mozilla. In Mozilla Mail, a message
>> displayed in fixed-width font (Courier) is quite clearly anti-aliased,
>> next to a variable-width font (Times) that is not. Zooming the text
>> to
>> 600% makes this quite evident.
>>
>> I also have seen anti-aliased text in the gdm2 graphic greeter. These
>> two examples existed even before I had added GDK_USE_XFT to my
>> environment, or followed any of the directions in the FAQ for enabling
>> anti-aliased text. So, there is anti-aliasing going on without any
>> settings whatsoever, but following the directions in the FAQ, adding
>> all my font directories to XftConfig, and setting "match edit
>> antialias=true;" in that file, still results in most fonts not being
>> anti-aliased.
>>
>> Any thoughts on what is wrong?
>
> What version of X is this? You really need a recent 4.2.x version with
> freetpye and type1 modules loaded.
>
> Joe
Well, I have the XFree86-libraries-4.2.1_6 port installed, and my
XF86Config file contains:
Section "Module"
Load "freetype"
Load "type1"
EndSection
I think that fits the bill, but obviously something is wrong...
--
Mark Edwards
San Francisco, CA
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