On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 01:41, Bernard El-Hagin wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 01:17, Bernard El-Hagin wrote: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> > >> >On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 00:46, Bernard El-Hagin wrote: > >> >> Hello, > >> >> > >> >> When I install some appliactions from ports they have nice > >> >> anti-aliased fonts by default (gaim, for example). Unfortunately others > >> >> do not (most notably gVim and also LinCVS, both of which are capable of > >> >> using them). Where exactly is this governed? How do I tell applications > >> >> to always use anti-aliased fonts? I am running CURRENT. > >> > > >> >There's a section on this in the FreeBSD handbook: > >> > > >> >http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-fonts.html > >> > >> > >> Thanks to that section of the handbook I have enabled anti-aliased fonts > >> in X, but it doesn't explain why some applications use those fonts by > >> default and others don't. That's my real problem. > > > >Yes it does. The last paragraph states: > > > >"Anti-aliasing should be enabled the next time the X server is started. > >However, programs must know how to take advantage of it. At present, the > >Qt toolkit does, so the entire KDE environment can use anti-aliased > >fonts (see Section 5.7.3.2 on KDE for details). Gtk+ and GNOME can also > >be made to use anti-aliasing via the ``Font'' capplet (see Section > >5.7.1.3 for details). By default, Mozilla 1.2 and greater will > >automatically use anti-aliasing. To disable this, rebuild Mozilla with > >the -DWITHOUT_XFT flag." > > > >So, do you have gVim built with gtk+-2 support, and have you done what > >section 5.7.3.2 tells you for KDE/Qt apps (i.e. set QT_XFT to true)? > > > I don't use KDE nor Gnome, but as I understand it any application which > is built with either Qt or Gtk+-2 support should be capable of using > anti-aliased fonts. What I'm asking is how do I:
Yes, per the cross-referenced sections in the above paragraph, you may have to do some additional setting of variables if you do not use the respective desktops. > > > 1. find out before building an application whether it will be built with > support for either of those, As things are right now, looking at the ports' Makefiles is your best bet. > > > 2. make sure that such support is added if it's not there by default > (which I should be able to establish in step 1). Once you figure out the variable to set, you can add it to make.conf or pkgtools.conf (or both). Joe > > > Thanks. > > > Cheers, > Bernard > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc
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