Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 23:58:20 -0800 From: Mark Edwards <mark@antsclimbtree.com> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gnome 2 on FreeBSD 4.7p3 -- multiple issues Message-ID: <EC5E7A12-3A71-11D7-9E22-000A278CC960@antsclimbtree.com> In-Reply-To: <1044604432.6865.32.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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On Thursday, February 6, 2003, at 11:53 PM, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: >>>> 3) I followed the directions to get font anti-aliasing working, and >>>> I >>>> do have GDK_USE_XFT set to 1 via .gnomerc. However, I don't see any >>>> difference in anti-aliasing. There was some anti-aliasing before I >>>> did anything at all, for instance in mozilla some fonts are >>>> anti-aliased. But there is none in the gnome2 desktop even after >>>> the >>>> new settings. What am I missing? Do I just need to add the proper >>>> fonts or something? >>> >>> You need to make sure your XftConfig is setup correctly, and you have >>> the latest freetype2. It hardly merits any work now as I'm on the >>> verge >>> of committing GNOME 2.2 which no longer requires GDK_USE_XFT. >> >> I've done a bit of work on this, despite your suggestion not to, and >> I'm still coming up short. I found a tutorial that suggests >> >> xdpyinfo | grep -c -i render >> >> as a test to see if XFree86 is including render support. Doing this >> on >> my system returns 0 instead 1 which the tutorial says is necessary for >> anti-aliasing. The tutorial says "wait until XFree86 supports Render >> on your graphics card." This is an old machine with an ATI Mach64 CT, >> so I would believe it is unsupported, however ... >> >> What's strange is that anti-aliasing is clearly occurring in a few >> places for me, most notably in Mozilla. In Mozilla Mail, a message >> displayed in fixed-width font (Courier) is quite clearly anti-aliased, >> next to a variable-width font (Times) that is not. Zooming the text >> to >> 600% makes this quite evident. >> >> I also have seen anti-aliased text in the gdm2 graphic greeter. These >> two examples existed even before I had added GDK_USE_XFT to my >> environment, or followed any of the directions in the FAQ for enabling >> anti-aliased text. So, there is anti-aliasing going on without any >> settings whatsoever, but following the directions in the FAQ, adding >> all my font directories to XftConfig, and setting "match edit >> antialias=true;" in that file, still results in most fonts not being >> anti-aliased. >> >> Any thoughts on what is wrong? > > What version of X is this? You really need a recent 4.2.x version with > freetpye and type1 modules loaded. > > Joe Well, I have the XFree86-libraries-4.2.1_6 port installed, and my XF86Config file contains: Section "Module" Load "freetype" Load "type1" EndSection I think that fits the bill, but obviously something is wrong... -- Mark Edwards San Francisco, CA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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