Some months back, I asked if anyone on fink-beginners knew how to get font antialiasing (smoothing) to work in KDE. Basically, if you go to the KDE Control Center -> Appearance & Themes -> Fonts and check "use anti-aliasing for fonts", then close the Control Center and open it again, the antialiasing preference doesn't "stick", and no antialiasing is done. The fonts look pretty ratty. I never got an answer or figured how to fix this problem.
I've found a solution, and I wanted to share it with the list and get it in the archives in case anyone else out there is having this problem. <http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.php?s=b9814f75960646d36254c272d72a4e41&thre adid=213587> has a somewhat faulty description of how to make font antialiasing (smoothing) work in KDE: If you go into the terminal and do a ls -all you'll see a folder named .qt which is owned by root. Just execute: sudo chown -R <yourusername>:<yourusername> .qt/ restart KDE and the settings will stick. This doesn't work, though - Terminal generates an error. There's no group with the same name as my username. It does reveal the root of the problem: The font antialiasing setting is evidently held in the files in ~/.qt, but ~/.qt and its contents are owned by root, and so (unless you're logged in as root, I guess) when you change the antialiasing setting in the Control Center, that change can't be written to ~/.qt. To fix this, set the owner of ~/.qt and its contents to your username. Doing this in Terminal $ sudo chown -R yourusername ~/.qt does the trick. Then, also under Control Center -> Appearance & Themes -> Fonts, go in and change the fonts to something like Helvetica that will antialias, and ta-da!, KDE looks great now. -Bo Parker ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by The 2004 JavaOne(SM) Conference Learn from the experts at JavaOne(SM), Sun's Worldwide Java Developer Conference, June 28 - July 1 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA REGISTER AND SAVE! http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf Priority Code NWMGYKND _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
