On Wed, 8 Aug 2012, Marc Balmer wrote:
> After building CDE, and starting dtlogin for the first time, I had a
> deja-vu of the bad kind... The fonts as is are true ugly, because they
> are non-antialiased. But since CDE builds on top of OpenMotif, which
> has had antialiased fonts (and UTF8) support for quite some time, I
> changed the Dtlogin resource files in /usr/dt/app-defaults/*/Dtlogin and
> added the following lines right before the font definitions:
>
> Dtlogin*fontlist: variable
> *renderTable: variable
> *renderTable.variable.fontName: Helvetica
> *renderTable.variable.fontSize: 18
> *renderTable.variable.fontType: FONT_IS_XFT
>
> It looks much nicer this way. Maybe using XFT fonts should be made the
> default for all of CDE?
TTF looks a lot better of course... In the future I would like
TTF/UTF8 to be the default, but it's way to early for that. Peter had
played with the TTF fonts before release.. I believe he mentioned it
looked nice, but that it also made things 'segfaulty' :)
>
> My next problem is, that Xsession does not run, briefly displays some
> text on a blue background, then the screen goes black and displays the
> sandwatch cursor (Debian Linux 64 bit).
>
Keep tracking git master... there are some good patches going in.
[...]
--
Jon Trulson
"If the Martian rope-a-dope don't get him, he'll get himself, he'll
come in too fast and punch himself out."
- one of my brothers, referring to the Curiosity landing.
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