On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 08:03:09PM -0500, Jud wrote:On Sat, 6 Mar 2004 14:40:17 +0100, Peter Hollaubek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Has anyone succeeded to use the linux-opera port with anti-aliased fonts?
>During installation it says the WITH_XFT2 variable should be set to
>enable
>aa fonts, and it does install the additional linux packages, though the
>fonts are rendered as usual. I've also tried setting the QT_XFT variable
>with
>no effect.
Opera uses an older method of anti-aliasing which involves use of an
XftConfig file. Though the document at the URL below describes a NetBSD
setup, it will work on FreeBSD, and Linux-Opera will be able to display
anti-aliased fonts if they are selected in fonts preferences. I find the
Bitstream Vera fonts give a very nice appearance.
<URL: http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-x11/2002/12/29/0000.html>
Thanks for the reply. Though the solution was not the one You've mentioned,
I've found the real one on freebsdforums.org. Just for the archive:
Fontconfig uses a configuration file named fonts.conf, xft loads fonts
according to this file. Though the configuration was good for native
application (for they have a differend version installed with the native
port in /usr/X11R6/etc/fonts/fonts.conf), the emulated opera found another
one like /usr/compat/etc/fonts/fonts.conf. You only have to symlink the native
to the other one, and everything's OK. Maybe this should be done by the linux
port automatically.
Then I suppose there is more than one "real" solution or it has changed in the very recent past, because an XftConfig file produces lovely anti-aliased fonts for me in Opera.
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