On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 01:17, Bernard El-Hagin wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 00:46, Bernard El-Hagin wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> 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.
Yes it does. The last paragraph states: "Anti-aliasing should be enabled the next time the X server is started. However, programs must know how to take advantage of it. At present, the Qt toolkit does, so the entire KDE environment can use anti-aliased fonts (see Section 5.7.3.2 on KDE for details). Gtk+ and GNOME can also be made to use anti-aliasing via the ``Font'' capplet (see Section 5.7.1.3 for details). By default, Mozilla 1.2 and greater will automatically use anti-aliasing. To disable this, rebuild Mozilla with the -DWITHOUT_XFT flag." So, do you have gVim built with gtk+-2 support, and have you done what section 5.7.3.2 tells you for KDE/Qt apps (i.e. set QT_XFT to true)? Joe > > > Cheers, > Bernard > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc
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