Hi, As far as I know, the settings have moved out of /etc/X11/XftConfig and into /etc/fonts/fonts.conf.
I'm afraid I can't give any advice on how to manage that file ... I simply use a recent Gnome2 control-center package, which does (most) things automagically. Good Luck, Brad. On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 15:59, Nick Monkman wrote: > Hi all, > > I am using the latest gnome bins from sid and am quite happy with it. > However, one thing is confusing to me. I recently decided to try the > mozilla-snapshot package. The font rendering was antialiased, which was > okay, but looked terrible on pages with light text on a dark background. > As I understand it, the newer versions of mozilla use Xft for font > rendering, so I decided to try to disable it. > > First of all, changing anything in unix.js had no effect. I discovered > eventually that this is because (I think) mozilla doesn't so any of it's > own antialiasing anymore - it uses gtk / xft somehow (and I am not clear > how). So I decided to try changing settings in my /etc/X11/XftConfig > file, using everything from match statements like: > > match > any size < 15 > any size > 8 > edit > antialias = false; > > to completely deleting (renaming) this file. This had no effect. My > gnome fonts were still antialiased, both on gnome widgets (looks okay) > to mozilla-snapshot (looks terrible on aforementioned pages). Finally I > just set GDK_USE_XFT=0. This disables, as you probably know, all Gnome2 > Xft rendering, as far as I can tell. This is okay, but I'd like know why > editing my XftConfig file had no effect, as I would like to use > selective antialiasing as provided by the match statements. Any ideas? > > Thanks, > Nick >
