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Date:      05 Jul 2002 23:30:07 -0400
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        James Earl <mtntrip@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Antialiased fonts
Message-ID:  <1025926207.1061.18.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020706032753.72326.qmail@web13908.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20020706032753.72326.qmail@web13908.mail.yahoo.com>

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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

> 
> James
> 
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