From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 24 15:50:52 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8602C1065674 for ; Sat, 24 May 2008 15:50:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from geeree@gmail.com) Received: from ti-out-0910.google.com (ti-out-0910.google.com [209.85.142.184]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AC508FC3F for ; Sat, 24 May 2008 15:50:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from geeree@gmail.com) Received: by ti-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id d27so889928tid.3 for ; Sat, 24 May 2008 08:50:50 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:x-google-sender-auth; bh=2KnZjJGFJU3D/+lpmYu+HClWr6Lg9PvPwAyR7+gD9Oc=; b=wye2uMCEi4d8Zwa5aqqEYfyBCBHPQFHWlIkxC1VLZcYXFAdQE0Io+1EHFXU2+7pnIRJrA7xFUdScpSbOd+lPPKGUn1BlY6Aq4gF0awL2u7nBfNYMZWlUekuI2z9SyMHuP4FrltafxqQkMoO0pQU94OtElBmZNEVTrFuj62ftEzg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:x-google-sender-auth; b=nVAKiMNVvz81liTFxbocWZWhGCn+qn0bEKqkLo2C/3B581JwQgOskXzwnNrADc6/8Hmi9chaKGt7WoObWF7xwKRRNnK4Rs2kO89KS1bSODhxRcnQ8pTBQ1Qblf33f+157h3oyCL21/wlnO/Vcb23Kju83meKoBkaxl9bodpL3E8= Received: by 10.110.15.9 with SMTP id 9mr337912tio.50.1211644250654; Sat, 24 May 2008 08:50:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.110.50.16 with HTTP; Sat, 24 May 2008 08:50:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <8a2141c0805240850r3847c851o474b43c9ca164dbe@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 21:20:50 +0530 From: "Girish Kulkarni" Sender: geeree@gmail.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Google-Sender-Auth: 6495dff3a84c51eb Subject: anti-aliased fonts X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 15:50:52 -0000 Hi, I have been trying to get font anti-aliasing and sub-pixel sampling right in Xfce 4.4.3 and GNOME 2.22 on FreeBSD 7.0 for my laptop. The handbook [1] has the following to say on anti-aliasing in its section 5.5.3: Beginning with XFree86 4.3.0, all fonts in X11 that are found in /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/ and ~/.fonts/ are automatically made available for anti-aliasing to Xft-aware applications. Not all applications are Xft-aware, but many have received Xft support. Examples of Xft-aware applications include Qt 2.3 and higher (the toolkit for the KDE desktop), GTK+ 2.0 and higher (the toolkit for the GNOME desktop), and Mozilla 1.2 and higher. Although I succeeded in getting the effect on the GNOME panels and other GTK applications, some applications like Firefox and rxvt seem to be having problems with anti-aliasing. I have kept a sample on the web to show how terrible this looks [2]. How do I achieve anti-aliasing in these applications, especially in Firefox? (I have several---Truetype or otherwise---fonts available and fp is set up suitably.) Thanks, Girish. [1] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-fonts.html#ANTIALIAS [2] http://girish.50webs.com/im.png -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://girish.50webs.com