Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (179 mails)

[Marcel Broekman <m.broek@xxxxxxxxx>]

Op donderdag 22 augustus 2002 23:48, schreef Joe Sullivan:
> --- Liz Young <liz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Not sure about Gnome, but for KDE 3.0.2 on 7.3, check /etc/X11/qtrc
> > for
> > "useXFT=false" and change to true.  There's some crashing with
> > Xfree4.1.0 and QT3.0.4(5?) where that was disabled.  I have long
> > ago
> > upgraded X to 4.2.0, and with this fix AA fonts are working.
>
> I haven't seen anti-aliased fonts in KDE3 since SuSE started
> dictating that us 7.3 users shouldn't have them rather than letting
> us turn them on/off ourselves the old-fashioned Control Panel way.
>
> I have changed that line to True. I've got "Use anti-aliased fonts"
> marked in the control panel. I've got all my fonts set to be fonts
> that can be anti-aliased, such as Arial. (And yes, I have Arial ttf
> installed. ;-)
>
> Still, I get jagged nasty fonts in everything KDE-related, including
> the desktop.
>
> Now, if SuSE would just stop dictating this in their QT3 RPMs for us
> and go back to the way QT3 packages were a few months ago, we
> wouldn't have this problem.
>
> Yes, I'm aware of the X 4.1 problem. The solution? Let them upgrade!
> Don't cut out anti-aliasing for every 7.3 user!
>
>
> Now, you're seeing anti-aliased fonts. I tried what you said you did
> over-and-over with each QT3 upgrade and still nothing. You must have
> done something else as well?
>
>
> Joe

Joe,

I went to the SuSE Knowledge Base and did a search on "anti-alias 7.3". 
Please read what's being said about this :
http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/mfabian_bytecodeinterpreter.html
It explains why and gives you a solution. You could've done that 
yourself. It's been there since november 20, 2001 :-)

Marcel