17 Jun
2003
17 Jun
'03
07:31
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 00:18:08 -0700
Ben Rosenberg
Yahoo Messenger is a GTK1 program and the fonts have NEVER been acceptable.
I see. To enable anti-aliasing for that app, one have to: (1) Download and compile gdkxft (http://gdkxft.sourceforge.net/) (2) In order to have anti-alias font for gtk 1.x app and gtk 2.x app at the same time, the gtk 1.x app either: (a) have to be recompiled to link to libgdkxft.so or (b) start it with a wrapper script to preload the lib, ie- #!/bin/sh export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/local/lib/gdkxft.so command_to_start_yahoo_messenger Charles -- if (argc > 1 && strcmp(argv[1], "-advice") == 0) { printf("Don't Panic!\n"); exit(42); } (Arnold Robbins in the LJ of February '95, describing RCS)