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Date:      03 Feb 2003 12:24:03 -0500
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        Mark Edwards <mark@antsclimbtree.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: gdkxft + gnome 1.4 + gdm on FreeBSD 4.7p3
Message-ID:  <1044293043.320.18.camel@gyros>
In-Reply-To: <3E3E2555.6090409@antsclimbtree.com>
References:  <3E3E2555.6090409@antsclimbtree.com>

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On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 03:16, Mark Edwards wrote:
> Well, the directions claim its simple, but try as I might, I can't get 
> font anti-aliasing to save my life!  I've tried following the gdkxft 
> README, but I still can't make gdkxft do anything useful.
> 
> Is there some trick to getting it working with gdm?  Should I have an 
> Xsession.d or an xinitrc.d directory somewhere (creating them in 
> /etc/X11 doesn't do squat).

You will need to move the gdm startup out of /etc/ttys, and create a
/usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d script for it.  In that script, set the LD_PRELOAD
(I think that's what gdkxft requires) variable, and you should be good
to go.

Joe

> 
> Thanks!  Sorry in advance if this is a moronic question.
> 
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