Ah, I thought I'd tried all the likely variants, but I still had the syntax wrong (no colon after the shadow spec stuff). It's gorgeous. Thanks very much for the lightening response.
-R. Quoting Mikhael Goikhman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 30 Dec 2002 19:15:04 +1100, Ross Hamilton wrote: > > > > Am I correct in assuming that the shadowed font feature doesn't > > work with anti-aliased text rendered through xft? > > If so, is there any likelyhood of getting the two to work together > > in the future? > > I'm using fvwm 2.5.4 on a Debian system with xfree 4.2.3 and a > > fairly recent freetype2. > > Both features worked nicely together from the start. There were problems > with MultiPixmap and shadowed text, but even this works well in cvs now. > > I suppose you use colorsets for defining fg, bg and fgsh of your text. > Otherwise text shadow is not drawn. > > Try this: > > Colorset 1 bg gray30, fg gray80 > Style * Colorset 1 > Style * Font "Shadow=2:xft:Verdana:Medium:size=12:minspace=true" > > If you have any problems please post relevant configuration that uses > colorsets and does not work for you (after running the daily snapshot). > > Regards, > Mikhael. > ------------------------------------------------------------ This email was sent from Netspace Webmail: http://www.netspace.net.au -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL: http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
