Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 11:01:24 -0800 From: Johnson David <DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> To: Mark Gladman <mark@fantoma.net>, freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: KDE fonts help. Message-ID: <200302261101.24920.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> In-Reply-To: <10440.150.101.221.95.1046236459.squirrel@mail.zoper.com> References: <10440.150.101.221.95.1046236459.squirrel@mail.zoper.com>
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On Tuesday 25 February 2003 09:14 pm, Mark Gladman wrote: > Hey there, > > I'm not *really* a newbie, although I figured that this'd be one of > those questions that would make me look like one! :) > I noticed that there's no KDE support mailing list, only a Gnome one, > so I didn't quite know where to send this to.. There is a FreeBSD KDE site at <http://freebsd.kde.org/>, with a pointer to a QA list at <http://lists.csociety.org/listinfo/kde-freebsd>. This list is meant for testing, fixing, and problem solving, and is not a general purpose support list. There is also the traditional KDE list for non-Linux users at <http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-nonlinux>. > I recently installed FreeBSD 5.0-release, and did a CVS update of the > ports. I then compiled and installed QT3, KDELIBS3 and KDEBASE3 (in > that order). I tried to use the meta-port to compile KDE 3.1 first > off, but it just went "Yup, compiled and installed" and that was it. > (and it only took about 25 seconds) The meta-port is an "install only" port. If you do a make it will do nothing. However, on a make install it will pull in all the dependencies and build them. This is because everything but libs and base are runtime dependencies, which only get pulled in at install. > Now, I'm not sure if this is suppose to happen or not (I really hope > not) but the fonts in KDE now look so very, very ugly. I've played > with the anti-aliasing settings, and all the different fonts, and > still no real improvement. Make sure you have good fonts installed (webfonts, bitstream-vera), list them in your XF86Config, edit your XftConfig appropriately, then turn on anti-aliasing in the KDE control center. This is no trivial matter, but you can get some pointers in the Handbook, and a good font deuglification guide at <http://feenix.burgiss.net/ldp/fdu/>. The trick, to me at least, is a good XftConfig file and choosing good fonts. There is little to no documentation on XftConfig, unfortunately. I grabbed my own XftConfig from Slackware at <ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware_source/x/xfree86/XftConfig/>. This was taken from Keith Packard's (the Xfree86 antialiasing guy) original XftConfig, which has now disappeared. You'll want to add any additional Type1 and truetype fonts in the directory list at the top. Whew! That should be enough pointers to documents to last you a while! Someone really needs to write a font deuglification document specifically for FreeBSD, but I don't have the time to do it. p.s. There have been very recent changes in ports related to Xft and fontconfig. If your timing for port updating was off, you might have picked up some broken stuff. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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