On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Timothy R. Butler wrote:
The SuSE 7.1 box advertises the fact that XFree86 4.02 has Anti-Aliasing, but I can't seem to figure out how to get it to work. I copied my collection of TrueType fonts over, set 'em up, but to my dismay the Renderer doesn't seem to engage and smooth the fonts. :-( What do I need to do (BTW, all of my TT fonts are in the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Managed directory that I setup to make KFontInstaller happy)?
Do I need KDE 2.1 before this will work?
No, you don't. All you need is an XFree86 4 server, that actually supports the RENDER extensions - you can check it like this: $ xdpyinfo | grep RENDER RENDER Now install your True Type fonts below /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype/ and run "SuSEconfig --module fonts". Now install package qt-experimental using YaST (it will replace the original qt library package) and restart KDE. Enjoy! Now all KDE2 apps should use AA fonts (check with xmag). If you use an LC Display, you might want to consider to activate a different RGB rendering algorithm by adding the following line to ~/.Xdefaults: Xft.rgba: rgb This looks much better on Laptop screens because it is actually using the singel RGB subpixel for antialiasing (similar to Microsoft's ClearType) BTW: If you do not have any TrueType fonts available, you can suck them from the Microsoft web site by executing "/usr/X11R6/bin/fetchmsttfonts" Bye, LenZ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer SuSE GmbH mailto:grimmer@suse.de Schanzaeckerstr. 10 http://www.suse.de/~grimmer/ 90443 Nuernberg, Germany Sherman, set the Way-Back Machine for 1492.