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)

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