[expert] Xwindow display quality. fonts

2001-02-18 Thread Neal Lippman
One thing I have noticed is that the "quality" of my display, by which I mean the sharpness of text on the screen and the quality of the fonts, just doesn't seem as good under X as it does under Windows booted on the same system. (For reference, I am using KDE 2.0, mdk 7.2 with kernel upgraded

Re: [expert] Xwindow display quality. fonts

2001-02-18 Thread Mike MacCana
Chances are what you're talking about is anti-aliasing, where the edges of a piece of text are blended into the background to prevent th appearance of pixelization. It will be a part of all KDE apps within a couple of months, and GNOME apps sometime afterwards (around nine months, IIRC). Mike Ne