Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 11:03:48 -0800 From: Mark Edwards <mark@antsclimbtree.com> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gdkxft + gnome 1.4 + gdm on FreeBSD 4.7p3 Message-ID: <39FBBAD6-37AA-11D7-B874-000A278CC960@antsclimbtree.com> In-Reply-To: <1044293043.320.18.camel@gyros>
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On Monday, February 3, 2003, at 09:24 AM, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > 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 Can you point me to a description of how to do this? All the documentation I've found describes starting gdm from /etc/ttys, and I'm not exactly sure how to translate that over to an rc.d script. Also, will setting LD_PRELOAD this way affect gnome after login, or will it just affect gdm? I tried setting LD_PRELOAD by hand in a term window after logging in, and then launching a gnome app like mozilla, and I still didn't see anti-aliased text. Does this indicate further problems? Thanks for you help! -- 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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