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Date:      Sat, 6 Jul 2002 20:12:30 -0700 (PDT)
From:      James Earl <mtntrip@yahoo.com>
To:        Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
Cc:        freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Antialiased fonts (Solved)
Message-ID:  <20020707031230.74371.qmail@web13908.mail.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <1026004388.369.49.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com>

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Problem solved:

It's GDK_USE_XFT not USE_GDK_XFT

Thanks,
James

--- Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-07-06 at 20:23, James Earl wrote:
> > 
> > --- Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> wrote:
> > > 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
> > 
> > I actually do have the freetype and type1 modules loaded.  I should have mentioned that.
> > 
> > To set USE_GDK_XFT to 1, I'm using 'setenv USE_GDK_XFT 1' from the command line.  Once I'm in
> > GNOME I check to see that USE_GDK_XFT is set to 1 using 'echo $USE_GDK_XFT'.  For my XftConfig
> > file I am using the one that is included with XFree86, except I have two dir lines: dir
> > "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1" and dir "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/webfonts"  Are there any
> other
> > requirements for the XftConfig file to get antialiased fonts working?
> 
> I just have the Type1 directory in my XftConfig, but things work fine. 
> I also set the variable in my ~/.gnomerc file, and use gdm to start
> GNOME.
> 
> You can see an example screenshot at
> http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/screenshots.html (the last screenshot) for
> an example of how it should look.
> 
> > 
> > There's no way that my GNOME 2.0 port could have been built without support for antialiased
> fonts
> > is there?
> 
> Nope.  It should be there by default.  Perhaps the webfonts thing is
> screwing things up.  Try commenting out that directory.
> 
> Joe
> 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > James
> > 
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