[Gllug] Anti-Aliased fonts in X/Gnome

[mallum]

You probably just need some decent truetype fonts installed. If using
debian - apt-get install msttcorefonts .

gdkxft is a bit of a hack. If you really want good AA in gnome, you
may be best building a gnome2 beta ( check garnome ). 

Also current X cvs has xft2 which is really meant to rock ...

  -- mallum



on Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 02:09:04AM +0100, Darran D. Rimron-Molloy wrote:
> I know that some on the list (Tom, for example, seen your nice
> screenshot) have gotten this working... but I am having problems...
> 
> Whenever I turn it on, on a font, fontclass or whatever, using gdkxft
> (via the preload) it just makes everything a mess. 
> 
> Is there some other way to get AAfonts in Gnome 1.4 apps. ie have I
> missed something. I have googled and FAQread for several hours, it seems
> that everyone drones on upon how wonderful this is in QT, but naught
> much on the GTK front.
> 
> Can anyone offer advice/xftconfig/gdkxft config. files to make my Ximian
> desktop a nicer place? :)
> 
> 	-Cheers, Darran
> 
> 
> 
> 
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