Re: Always forcing core font rendering

[Ross Vandegrift <ross willow seitz com>]

On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 02:06:15AM -0400, Noah Levitt wrote:
> > I personally want to see the font subsystem allow both Xft and core
> > fonts to be used at the same time.  I have some nice fixed-point
> > terminal fonts that I'd love to use in gnome-terminal.  Probably a GDK
> > hack could do this, but probably a smarter fontconfig/Xft system would
> > be better.
> 
> Xft/fontconfig/freetype support old X bdf fonts.

I was told on the xfree86 mailing list that you do need recent versions
of these, though - Xft2 with fontconfig 2 and freetype 2.

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