Re: New to Gnome 2.0

[Stefano Incontri <stefano in iol it>]

On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 18:19, Alan wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 04:02:23PM +0100, Stefano Incontri wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > I have just downloaded and installed Gnome 2.0 on a Slackware distro.
> > It's really nice, but I have a couple of questions :
> > 
> > 1) How to disable fonts anti-aliasing? As per default, I'm not able to
> > find a good font to be used in the Gnome Terminal!
> 
> Look for the GDK_USE_XFT setting (probably in
> /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/Gnome or something like that).  1 = anti aliased,
> 0 = non-anti aliased.

I found it in /etc/profile (it's a Slackware :)
It perfectly worked, so it's just the new font server that implement
anti aliased fonts and make use of TTF fonts.

> 
> > 2) How to configure advanced options in Metacity? For example, I'm not
> > able to make gkrellm skip the windows list and sticky.
> 
> There are no advanced options.

I see :)

> 
> > 3) How to go back to Sawfish (in case I'm not able to configure Metacity
> 
> At your terminal run: 
> 
> killall metacity ; sawfish

Ok, but I changed the startup script so that it now runs sawfish instead
of metacity.

Thanks for you help!
Stefano

> 
> Hope that Helps!
> 
> alan
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