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Re: gdm2 and fonts



On Fri, 2002-07-12 at 11:17, Evan Martin wrote:
> I'm using Hadess's PPC package of GDM2, so I apologize in advance if I
> shouldn't be bothering the list...
> 
> But GDM2 is starting without GDK_USE_XFT=1, which means that the font it
> chooses is not only ugly but oddly very slow to display (after I press a
> key, it takes a second to display the first letter).  It also looks
> awful, which makes me think it's loading some wacky font.
> 
> Where is this sort of thing configured?  GDM runs outside of my login
> process, so it's not like I can modify a .bashrc somewhere...

Putting GDK_USE_XFT=1 into /etc/environment works.

Peace,

    Jim Cape
    http://ignore-your.tv/

    "No cause, no God, no abstract idea can justify the mass
     slaughter of innocents."
        -- Edward Said

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