Re: No AA fonts?

[Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>]

<quote who="ben tordoff ukonline co uk">

> GDK_USE_XFT is set to 1 (both in the bashrc and the Gnome2 session file),
> but to no avail. Is there some other config option I need to set, a
> compile option, or maybe something I could check to see what is amiss? I
> tried this on both a Redhat 7.2 machine and a Redhat 7.3 one, compiled on
> Monday, and both giving the same result.

Check your /etc/X11/XftConfig, and that your X server has the RENDER
extension loaded (run xdpyinfo).

> I must give a big thumbs up to the garnome builders though - I was
> somewhat sceptical about whether it would build without intervention, but
> it just worked (well, except the AA fonts)! Very slick, well done.

Thanks. :-)

- Jeff

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