Date: 4 Sep 2001 15:54:39 -0000 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: docs/30316: Handbook section on antialiased fonts with gtk/gnome Message-ID: <20010904155439.6432.qmail@bluerondo.a.la.turk>
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>Number: 30316
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: Handbook section on antialiased fonts with gtk/gnome
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
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>Date-Required:
>Class: update
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Tue Sep 04 09:00:05 PDT 2001
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>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Rahul Siddharthan
>Release: FreeBSD 4.4-PRERELEASE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD bluerondo.a.la.turk 4.4-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 4.4-PRERELEASE #14: Mon Aug 27 08:39:23 CEST 2001 root@bluerondo.a.la.turk:/usr2/src/sys/compile/BLUERONDO i386
>Description:
A small addition to the section on GNOME, on how to enable
antialiased fonts there.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
--- chapter.sgml Tue Sep 4 17:45:46 2001
+++ chapter.sgml Tue Sep 4 17:50:42 2001
@@ -755,9 +755,12 @@
can use anti-aliased fonts
(see <xref linkend="x11-wm-kde2-antialias"> on
<application>KDE</application> for
- details); there are patches for gtk+ to do the same,
+ details); there are patches for gtk+ to do the same,
so if compiled against such a patched gtk+, the GNOME environment
- and Mozilla can also use anti-aliased fonts.</para>
+ and Mozilla can also use anti-aliased fonts. In fact, there
+ is now a library called gdkxft (in the ports) which allows one
+ to use antialiased fonts without recompiling: see
+ <xref linkend="x11-wm-gnome-antialias"> for details.</para>
<para>Anti-aliasing is still new to FreeBSD and
<application>XFree86</application>;
@@ -1109,6 +1112,45 @@
<link linkend="x11-wm-kde2-details">KDE2 details</link>
explains how to do this for <filename>kdm</filename>, the
display manager of <application>KDE</application>.</para>
+ </sect3>
+ <sect3 id="x11-wm-gnome-antialias">
+ <title>Anti-aliased fonts with GNOME</title>
+
+ <para>While anti-aliased fonts made their first appearance
+ on XFree86 desktops in the KDE environment and are supported
+ there in the standard installation, it is possible to use them
+ with gtk applications such as the GNOME environment too. The
+ most straightforward way is probably by using the recent library
+ <application>libgdkxft</application>, in the ports (x11/gdkxft).
+ After installing this port, read carefully the file
+ <filename>/usr/X11R6/share/doc/gdkxft/README</filename>.</para>
+
+ <para>If you already have a working
+ <filename>XftConfig</filename> file, all you really need to do is
+ tell your gtk applications to look for their font-rendering
+ functions in <filename>libgdkxft.so</filename> before looking in the
+ standard place, <filename>libgdk.so</filename>. This is easily
+ accomplished by setting an environment variable to point to the
+ right place; with the Bourne shell
+ (<application>/bin/sh</application>) or similar shells, type
+ the command (to start the Gimp, say)</para>
+<screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>LD_PRELOAD=/usr/X11R6/lib/libgdkxft.so gimp</userinput></screen>
+ <para>and with csh and similar shells, type</para>
+<screen>
+&prompt.user; <userinput>setenv LD_PRELOAD /usr/X11R6/lib/libgdkxft.so</userinput>
+&prompt.user; <userinput>gimp</userinput>
+</screen>
+ <para>It is a nuisance to do this all the time, so you can
+simply put the commands</para>
+<programlisting>
+LD_PRELOAD=/usr/X11R6/lib/libgdkxft.so
+export LD_PRELOAD
+</programlisting>
+ <para>into your <filename>.xinitrc</filename>,
+ <filename>.xsession</filename> or in the appropriate place(s) in
+ <filename>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession</filename>, depending
+ on how you normally start X. However, this short-cut may cause
+ you problems if you want to run linux gtk binaries.</para>
</sect3>
</sect2>
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