Re: Gnome 2.0 antialiased fonts

[Sven LUTHER <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>]

On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 02:44:03PM +0200, Jan Mueller wrote:
> 
> > > You still have to load 'xft' or something, do you not ?
> > 
> > No, Xft is completely client side. The only thing it requires for AA is
> > Render, and you can't influence that in XF86Config.
> > 
> 
> ok, so the steps would be.
> 
> 1. check if RENDER is working. (xdpyinfo  | grep RENDER)

Ok, ...

> 2. check if freetype is installed

seems ok, or is something else meant here ?

ii  libfreetype6        2.1.2-7             FreeType 2 font engine, shared library files.
ii  libfreetype6-dev    2.1.2-7             FreeType 2 font engine, development files

> 3. edit the .xftconfig

No such file is present.

> 4. place "export GDK_USE_XFT=1" before
> 	the execution of "gnome-session" in your .xinitrc

Mmm, is gnome-session not supposed to be called by some gdm stuff ?

I have no .xinitrc for example.

Friendly,

Sven Luther