Fixed. I followed the instructions in the cooker mailing list and I can now
properly use KDE with antialiasing. The fix is unfortunate in that it
requires the downloading and installing of M$ fonts - not a free license but
free to use (so far at least).
They (Cooker developers) are attempting to determine the nature of the
problem for a better fix - one that doesn't require the downloading of extra,
extraneous truetype fonts.
Anyway, the instructions are:
You need an XftConfig file to define your font mappings for qt -> X11.
The temp fix is:
go to http://keithp.com/~keithp/fonts and download the truetype.tar.gz and
XftConfig files. Untar truetype.tar.gz and move the resulting truetype
directory to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts (if you already have such a directory,
copy all the files in the directory to your existing directory). Put the
XftConfig file in /etc/X11. To keep your fonts migrated from windoze via
drakfont, add the path to the drakfont fonts to XftConfig (ie, dir
"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont" to XftConfig below the already existant
Type1 and truetype paths). Restart X.
You can now properly select fonts and all appears as it should AND you get
antialiasing. Apparently, there is a problem with mixing aa and non-aa fonts
in the same app. Myself, I am using arial for everything except my fixed
font, of course. Looks great.
On Monday 12 March 2001 15:45, Praedor Tempus wrote:
> Thanks for the pointer. I will be attempting the suggested fix (from the
> cooker list) and see how that goes. Then I'll let ya'll know what comes of
> it. I am hoping to be able to stick with qt-2.3.0 because the fonts really
> do look damn nice.
>
> On Monday 12 March 2001 12:35, Tobias Marx wrote:
> > Praedor Tempus schrieb:
> > > > no, it should work right out of the box.
> > >
> > > I must say that my system has been totally dicked up by the switch to
> > > qt2-2.3.0. This only affects kde apps. Most of my kde app menus are
> > > messed up, with the menu widgets being totally screwed vs the text in
[...]
> > there has been a thread on this topic on the cooker mailing list. you
> > may have a look in the archive on
> > http://www.mail-archive.com/cooker@linux-mandrake.com/
> >
> > bye,
> > Tobias
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