Hi Bradley,

On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 17:25:13 +0200, Bradley T Hughes wrote:
> non-developers are probably interested in this as well... so here you 
> go... note: this is against cvs and may break, so use the patch at
> your 
> own risk!  it is simply a prototype at the moment, and will need work 
> before it is ready for committing.
That's great news for us AA addicts :-)

I just did a test run with blackbox-cvs-xft, and it works quite nicely.
I wasn't using bb-cvs before, but I might do so more often now now that
I can get AA fonts.

One thing I dislike a bit is that it always uses Xft to draw fonts, even
if the requested (non-truetype/type1) font can't be found (as
XftFontOpen will return the default font; at least it used to be this
way). This is a major drawbacks IMHO as I really want to have my pcf
fonts sometimes.
During the 0.65.0pre series, I wrote some patches [1] to enable Xft,
where I used XftListFonts to determine whether the requested font is
available.  If not, it wouldn't use the default Xft font but try to
load it the traditional (non Xft) way. I'm not sure how others look at
this, but I'd really like Blackbox 0.70 to support both AA and non-AA
fonts without changing a flag (xft on/off), just trying a bit harder to
really use the font defined in the style. Well, those were just my two
cents ;-)

Best regards and thank you for a very nice window manager,
Johannes

References:
1 http://www.hta-bi.bfh.ch/~winkj/files/bbaa-0.65.0-patches/bbaa-pre1-1.patch
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Johannes Winkelmann              mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Biel, Switzerland                http://jw.tks6.net

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