On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 02:41, Mark Edwards wrote: > On Thursday, February 6, 2003, at 09:14 AM, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > > On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 12:07, Mark Edwards wrote: > >> 1) Is there any way to run xscreensaver with gdm2? With gdm, there > >> was a Background option in the config tool, but that's gone. > > > > What do you mean? Run xscreensaver while gdm itself is running (i.e. > > no > > user logged in)? I've never done this, but there are quite a few > > configuration options in the /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm/gdm.conf that are not > > in > > the GUI tool. > > I figured this out. gdm2 has removed the BackgroundProgram feature > from the configuration gui, but it still exists in gdm.conf. You have > to set > > BackgroundProgram=/usr/X11R6/bin/xscreensaver -nosplash > > and also > > RunBackgroundProgramAlways=true > > However, it doesn't seem to work with the new graphical greeter. > That's what got me. Use the default greeter, and set the above > settings in gdm.conf (and put an .xscreensaver in the gdm home > directory) and you get xscreensaver during the login window. > > >> 2) gdm2 crashes if I go to the configure tool, close, then go to the > >> configure tool again. I saw this same behavior in gdm, and it was > >> solved by starting via /etc/ttys, I think. Is there anyway to fix > >> this? Basically, once I go to the configure tool, I have to resart > >> gdm2 if I want to go to the configure tool again. > > > > I haven't seen this, but I'll take a look. > > I think I spoke too quickly on this one. It appears that on second > load, the gdm configure tool just takes a really long time on my > machine. I mistook this for the crashing that I saw with gdm under > gnome 1.4, which I originally solved by a re-install. Sorry for the > false alarm! > > >> 3) I followed the directions to get font anti-aliasing working, and I > >> do have GDK_USE_XFT set to 1 via .gnomerc. However, I don't see any > >> difference in anti-aliasing. There was some anti-aliasing before I > >> did anything at all, for instance in mozilla some fonts are > >> anti-aliased. But there is none in the gnome2 desktop even after the > >> new settings. What am I missing? Do I just need to add the proper > >> fonts or something? > > > > You need to make sure your XftConfig is setup correctly, and you have > > the latest freetype2. It hardly merits any work now as I'm on the > > verge > > of committing GNOME 2.2 which no longer requires GDK_USE_XFT. > > I've done a bit of work on this, despite your suggestion not to, and > I'm still coming up short. I found a tutorial that suggests > > xdpyinfo | grep -c -i render > > as a test to see if XFree86 is including render support. Doing this on > my system returns 0 instead 1 which the tutorial says is necessary for > anti-aliasing. The tutorial says "wait until XFree86 supports Render > on your graphics card." This is an old machine with an ATI Mach64 CT, > so I would believe it is unsupported, however ... > > What's strange is that anti-aliasing is clearly occurring in a few > places for me, most notably in Mozilla. In Mozilla Mail, a message > displayed in fixed-width font (Courier) is quite clearly anti-aliased, > next to a variable-width font (Times) that is not. Zooming the text to > 600% makes this quite evident. > > I also have seen anti-aliased text in the gdm2 graphic greeter. These > two examples existed even before I had added GDK_USE_XFT to my > environment, or followed any of the directions in the FAQ for enabling > anti-aliased text. So, there is anti-aliasing going on without any > settings whatsoever, but following the directions in the FAQ, adding > all my font directories to XftConfig, and setting "match edit > antialias=true;" in that file, still results in most fonts not being > anti-aliased. > > Any thoughts on what is wrong?
What version of X is this? You really need a recent 4.2.x version with freetpye and type1 modules loaded. Joe > > -- > Mark Edwards > San Francisco, CA -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc
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