On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 11:56:49PM +0200, Spider wrote:
> begin  quote
> On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 22:17:31 +0100
> Dhruba Bandopadhyay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > Hello
> > 
> > No matter how much one preaches about the merits of anti-aliasing of
> > fonts and xft in GUI I'm afraid I just can't be convinced.  I must be
> > rid of this blurred text and GUI once and for all.
> > 
> > How can I turn off anti-aliasing in Evolution 1.4.4 and disable xft if
> > applicable and should this be done before building or afterwards?
> 
> This is the interesting variable :
>  echo $GDK_USE_XFT
> 1
> 
> 
> Set that to 0, and AA text is disabled. Its set in the 
> /etc/env.d/50gtk2   
> variable for all users, or simply wrap evolution in a script, or alter
> your personal login sessions to disable AA

Or to set it for just evolution you can create a little shell script or
alias that does basically:

export GDK_USE_XFT evolution

Which should only turn off AA for evolution.  Or follow Spider's
instructions for disabling AA for everything.


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