On Mon Jul 22 15:57 +0000, Adam Williamson wrote: > 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...
I put export GDK_USE_XFT in /etc/gnome/gnomerc (I start gnome through startx from runlevel 3... no guarantee that this will work if you happen to use gdm) -- Levi Ramsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can never break the chain: There is never love without pain. Linux 2.4.18-20mdk 11:01pm up 6 days, 10:37, 9 users, load average: 0.29, 0.17, 0.18
