Re: Xft and fontconfig configuration

[Samuel Stringham <sams marketing-designs com>]

On 2002.10.27 14:42 Martijn Anthonissen wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 19:30, Francis Bouchard wrote:
> > When I start GNOME with GDK_USE_XFT=1, XftConfig loops saying that
> my
> > XftConfig is broken or a bug in XFree causes the problem.  How do I
> write a
> > good XftConfig file ?
>
> Here's mine. This is a valid file (watch out for line wrapping!):
>
> # $XFree86: xc/lib/Xft/XftConfig.cpp,v 1.8 2001/11/21 23:41:12 keithp
> Exp $
>
> match edit rgba = rgb;
> match edit antialias = true;
>
> dir "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
> dir "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType"
> dir "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"
>
> #
> # alias 'fixed' for 'mono'
> #
> match any family == "fixed"		edit family =+ "mono";
>
> #
> # Check users config file
> #
> includeif	"~/.xftconfig"
>
> #
> # Alias between XLFD families and font file family name, prefer local
> # fonts
> #
> match any family == "charter"		edit family += "bitstream
> charter";
> match any family == "bitstream charter" edit family =+ "charter";
>
> match
>   any size > 8
>   any size < 14
> edit
>   antialias = false;
>
>
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I had this problem on garnome till I worked out which Xft/fontconfig it 
was going to use.  I had three different versions I found.  One that 
came with .18.0, one that came with XFree86 (from CVS), and one that I 
compiled and installed (probably) months ago.  This is the first time I 
have had AA fonts in GNOME2 in like 4 months.  I can do it, so can 
you:)  First look for which fontconfig.pc is in the PKG_CONFIG path 
(depends on how you installed pkg-config, maybe in 
$GARNOME_PREFIX/lib/pkg-config/ maybe in /usr/lib/pkg-config maybe in 
/usr/X11R6/pkg-config/)  Do the same for Xft.pc and make sure 
libfontconfig.so and libXft.so are in the correct places, then try it 
again, and make sure it is using the correct fonts.conf file.

Samuel Stringham