[plug] Anti-aliased fonts with Gnome2 on Debian

Ryan ryan at is.as.geeky.as
Mon Mar 17 16:29:37 WST 2003


> You can test it that will make a difference by opening a terminal and
> doing:
> GDK_USE_XFT=1 gnome-terminal <enter>
> Then use xmag on a porttion of the menu to see the nice aa goodness.
> 
> Assuming this works you can do:
> a) add GDK...1 to /etc/environment
> b) add GDK...1 to /etc/X11/gdm/???? Oh crap I've fogotten the file
> c) add GDK...1 to ~/.gnomerc (chmod 0700 .gnomrc)
> 
> Personally I used option c.  I say used because the .debs in unstable
> use xft2 which does AA by default, (you use the envvar to turn it off).

All makes sense ... and now assuming it had no effect? :)

Ryan




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