Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 09:27:51 -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: <51A04176-39F8-11D7-AE66-000A278CC960@antsclimbtree.com> In-Reply-To: <1044551697.320.12.camel@gyros>
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On Thursday, February 6, 2003, at 09:14 AM, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 12:07, Mark Edwards wrote: >> 1) Is there any way to run xscreensaver with gdm2? With gdm, there >> was a Background option in the config tool, but that's gone. > > What do you mean? Run xscreensaver while gdm itself is running (i.e. > no > user logged in)? I've never done this, but there are quite a few > configuration options in the /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm/gdm.conf that are not > in > the GUI tool. Yes, I want the monitor to go into standby after 5 minutes of the login screen. >> 2) gdm2 crashes if I go to the configure tool, close, then go to the >> configure tool again. I saw this same behavior in gdm, and it was >> solved by starting via /etc/ttys, I think. Is there anyway to fix >> this? Basically, once I go to the configure tool, I have to resart >> gdm2 if I want to go to the configure tool again. > > I haven't seen this, but I'll take a look. > >> >> >> 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. Ah. So if XftConfig is set up properly, I should see everything anti-aliased, is that right? -- Mark Edwards San Francisco, CA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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