Re: RH 7.3 and AA fonts

[Pat Suwalski <pat suwalski net>]

It also has plenty to do with /etc/X11/XftConfig.

You need to have the right fonts defined in there.

See the font de-uglification faq.
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/FDU/index.html

--Pat

Joshua Burley wrote:
> Still can't get AA fonts working.
>
> Yes, I've set GDK_USE_XFT, yep, I've got RENDER. Yes, I've edited my XftConfig,
> and have even taken out ALL references that might set antialias=false.
>
> I just can't seem to get AA fonts working! I've searched the archives, asked
> in #garnome, google'd, followed other's xft-aa howtos. No luck.
>
> The most recent help I've gotten, from a random person on the 'net, was trying
> to strace gnome-terminal, and grep for xft. This showed no matches, so the
> person suggested that I don't have libpangoxft or libXft set up correctly
> in Garnome. Was there something in the compile/configuration that I needed to
> set, or some library garnome isn't finding at compile time? Or am I completely
> on the wrong track.
>
> Everyone I've spoken to with RH 7.3 has had the same problem :/
>
> Thanks for your help!
> .josh
>
>  Josh Burley
>  josh kuci org
>  "Jesus saves, Allah forgives, Cthulhu thinks you'd make a nice sandwich."
>
>  Addendum: Cthulhu also saves... in case he's hungry later.