On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 12:50, Matthew Carr wrote: > Ok, so how do you get fonts to look even slightly nice in OpenOffice or > Mozilla??? I am running RH 8 with KDE. Almost all other proggies render > fonts with nice anti-aliasing.. grrrrrrr. >From http://art.gnome.org/faq.php To use AA fonts in GNOME2, the variable GDK_USE_XFT needs to be set to '1'. This needs to be set when you log in to apply it to all your programs. If you use startx then put it in your .xsession. If you use gdm then you can put it into your gdm session.
> Have set font paths in XF86config and xfs config, set up font dirs as > per instructions (ttmkfdir etc). I haven't created a font.alias file due > to the number of fonts I have (is there an app to do this?). Would it > make a difference if I did? It is easier than that now. Create a directory called ~/.fonts and put the fonts in there. Fontconfig will pick them up automagically and it will just work for anything that uses Fontconfig. -- Michael JasonSmith http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~mpj17/
