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Date:      Thu, 04 Dec 2003 07:17:29 +0100
From:      Bernard El-Hagin <bernard.el-hagin@lido-tech.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Anti aliased fonts in FBSD
Message-ID:  <78ktsvgnq7f5n98np0vkgkdtp2q4qrhn0v@4ax.com>
In-Reply-To: <1070518494.26031.21.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org wrote:

>On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 00:46, Bernard El-Hagin wrote:
>> Hello,
>>=20
>>   When I install some appliactions from ports they have nice
>> anti-aliased fonts by default (gaim, for example). Unfortunately =
others
>> do not (most notably gVim and also LinCVS, both of which are capable =
of
>> using them). Where exactly is this governed? How do I tell =
applications
>> to always use anti-aliased fonts? I am running CURRENT.
>
>There's a section on this in the FreeBSD handbook:
>
>http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-fonts.html


Thanks to that section of the handbook I have enabled anti-aliased fonts
in X, but it doesn't explain why some applications use those fonts by
default and others don't. That's my real problem.


Cheers,
Bernard



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