Font antialiasing in debian.

[BazooDJG]

I'm just curious what the standard procedue for enabling antialiasing throughout xfree (qt and gtk and whatnot) is. I don't have my sager yet, but I'm sure I'll have a hard time with the fonts unless they're antialiased. I'll be using debian, if that helps!

-Gumpan

[laclasse]

BazooDJG,

AA works with libxft2, the new version. As well you need some true type fonts, and gtk2.0 installed ( libgtk2.0 ). Gnome2 will be AA by default, as well as any apps using gtk2 ( gkrellm2, gedit, etc ...).

I use OpenBox WM wich support Xft2 rendering...but all don't. As well, in mozilla/phoenix, to enable AA, you need to edit : /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref/unix.js
and give it : Use Freetype2; false) <== replace with true, and specify the TT preferred directories. As well make sure to include your True type font dirs in your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, as FontPath "/ya/tt/fonts/dirs" , then restart X or, xset fp rehash as root ;).
Once again depends of you WM, KDE and Gnome are AA all the way now.
Hope that helps......
btw: On debian, we have a great app called 'defoma', if ya intrust font management to it, as debian installer will ask you, ya use then dfontmgr as root to make fonts avalaible to apps ;).

-----------------------------------
Windows is not an OS, it is an utility to reboot your computer .