Re: problems with local fonts

[Jason Pepas <j.pepas@mail.utexas.edu>]

On Saturday 12 October 2002 06:58 am, Jason Pepas wrote:
> hello,
>
> I recently added /usr/local/fonts, added that to my FontPath in
> XF86-Config, and did ttmkfdir > fonts.scale, and cp fonts.scale fonts.dir
>
> the good:
>
> kde and mozilla can see the newly added fonts just fine.
>
> the bad:
>
> kde will not anitalias those fonts, even though they are truetype.
> gnome2 will not see that at all  (I added export GDK_USE_XFT=1 to
> /etc/gdm/Session/Gnome).
>
> so, I must be missing something.  does anyone know what it is?
>
> thanks,
> jason pepas

ack, forgot to add an entry in XftConfig.  DOH!

however, mozilla/unstable doesn't seem to be anti-aliasing fonts.  Anyone have 
any pointers on this one?

thanks
jason pepas