On Mon, 2002-07-22 at 12:53, Luca Ognibene wrote:
> if i use runlevel 3 (text login) i've got no problem but if i use
> runlevel 5 with gdm login i've got serveral problems.
> 
> 1) no antialias font (i've got gnome2..)

This is controlled by the environment variable GDK_USE_XFT, should be
set to 1 for AA. guess you need to find out where this is / isn't
getting set...

> 2) in terminals(xterm or gnome-terminal)there are no alias
> (l, ll, ... don't work)
> 3)no ls coloured output

these are the same problem (ls coloured output is provided by aliasing
ls to ls <some parameters>), and it's one I have too. I looked into it a
bit with some help. These settings are controlled by the script
/etc/profile.d/alias.sh , which I think (don't remember my research into
this one very well :>) is incorporated into the system-wide bash
defaults somehow (one of those
script-parsing-individual-files-in-subdirectory systems mandrake seems
to like using, I think). I think it was established that on my system
these were being set properly but then, for some reason, unset by
something else afterwards for some users. (For me, the aliases were set
properly for root but not for my normal user adamw). My solution, though
it's really a hack since I still haven't diagnosed the root cause, was
simply to copy/paste the relevant bits from alias.sh to the section in
$HOME/.bashrc which is set aside for user-defined aliases. You could
also see if adding 'export GDK_USE_XFT=1' to .bashrc somewhere fixes
your anti-aliasing problem, actually...
-- 
adamw


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