From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 3 22:19:28 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0033516A4CE for ; Wed, 3 Dec 2003 22:19:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from airbus.lido-tech.net (airbus.lido-tech.net [62.89.127.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F39C43FBD for ; Wed, 3 Dec 2003 22:19:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bernard.el-hagin@lido-tech.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by airbus.lido-tech.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 488E624CD6 for ; Thu, 4 Dec 2003 06:09:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from airbus.lido-tech.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (airbus [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 20994-08 for ; Thu, 4 Dec 2003 06:09:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: from lido-tech.net (domino01.lido-tech [192.168.32.82]) by airbus.lido-tech.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E3A324CC6 for ; Thu, 4 Dec 2003 06:09:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: from gdndev25.lido-tech ([192.168.38.25]) by lido-tech.net (Lotus Domino Release 5.0.11) with SMTP id 2003120407221487:40534 ; Thu, 4 Dec 2003 07:22:14 +0100 From: Bernard El-Hagin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 07:17:29 +0100 Message-ID: <78ktsvgnq7f5n98np0vkgkdtp2q4qrhn0v@4ax.com> References: <1070518494.26031.21.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <1070518494.26031.21.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English (American) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-MIMETrack: Itemize by SMTP Server on Domino01.lido-tech/Lido-Tech(Release 5.0.11 |July 24, 2002) at 04-12-2003 07:22:14,|July 24, 2002) at 04-12-2003 07:22:16, Serialize complete at 04-12-2003 07:22:16 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: Anti aliased fonts in FBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: bernard.el-hagin@lido-tech.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 06:19:28 -0000 owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org wrote: >On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 00:46, Bernard El-Hagin wrote: >> Hello, >>=20 >> When I install some appliactions from ports they have nice >> anti-aliased fonts by default (gaim, for example). Unfortunately = others >> do not (most notably gVim and also LinCVS, both of which are capable = of >> using them). Where exactly is this governed? How do I tell = applications >> to always use anti-aliased fonts? I am running CURRENT. > >There's a section on this in the FreeBSD handbook: > >http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-fonts.html Thanks to that section of the handbook I have enabled anti-aliased fonts in X, but it doesn't explain why some applications use those fonts by default and others don't. That's my real problem. Cheers, Bernard