Re: anti-aliased fonts
On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 9:37 PM, Ashish Shukla wrote: Search for FireFox in this blog post[1] That helped. Although, I had to restrict font availability in Firefox; some fonts don't support anti-aliasing. You might like to join bsd-india[2] list[3]. Thanks. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://girish.50webs.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
anti-aliased fonts
Hi, I have been trying to get font anti-aliasing and sub-pixel sampling right in Xfce 4.4.3 and GNOME 2.22 on FreeBSD 7.0 for my laptop. The handbook [1] has the following to say on anti-aliasing in its section 5.5.3: Beginning with XFree86 4.3.0, all fonts in X11 that are found in /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/ and ~/.fonts/ are automatically made available for anti-aliasing to Xft-aware applications. Not all applications are Xft-aware, but many have received Xft support. Examples of Xft-aware applications include Qt 2.3 and higher (the toolkit for the KDE desktop), GTK+ 2.0 and higher (the toolkit for the GNOME desktop), and Mozilla 1.2 and higher. Although I succeeded in getting the effect on the GNOME panels and other GTK applications, some applications like Firefox and rxvt seem to be having problems with anti-aliasing. I have kept a sample on the web to show how terrible this looks [2]. How do I achieve anti-aliasing in these applications, especially in Firefox? (I have several---Truetype or otherwise---fonts available and fp is set up suitably.) Thanks, Girish. [1] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-fonts.html#ANTIALIAS [2] http://girish.50webs.com/im.png -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://girish.50webs.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: anti-aliased fonts
Girish Kulkarni writes: Girish Hi, Hi, [snip] Girish Although I succeeded in getting the effect on the GNOME panels and Girish other GTK applications, some applications like Firefox and rxvt seem Girish to be having problems with anti-aliasing. I have kept a sample on the Girish web to show how terrible this looks [2]. How do I achieve Girish anti-aliasing in these applications, especially in Firefox? (I have Girish several---Truetype or otherwise---fonts available and fp is set up Girish suitably.) Search for FireFox in this blog post[1] Girish -- Girish Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://girish.50webs.com You might like to join bsd-india[2] list[3]. References: [1] - http://netbuzzme.blogspot.com/2006/01/freebsd-is-really-cool.html [2] - http://www.bsd-india.org/ [3] - http://www.bsd-india.org/mailman/listinfo/bsd-india HTH -- Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल http://wahjava.wordpress.com/ ·-- ·- ·--- ·- ···- ·- ·--·-· --· -- ·- ·· ·-·· ·-·-·- -·-· --- -- pgpKVnwWSpIMA.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Anti aliased fonts in FBSD
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 01:41, Bernard El-Hagin wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 01:17, Bernard El-Hagin wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 00:46, Bernard El-Hagin wrote: Hello, When I install some appliactions from ports they have nice anti-aliased fonts by default (gaim, for example). Unfortunately others do not (most notably gVim and also LinCVS, both of which are capable of using them). Where exactly is this governed? How do I tell applications to always use anti-aliased fonts? I am running CURRENT. There's a section on this in the FreeBSD handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-fonts.html Thanks to that section of the handbook I have enabled anti-aliased fonts in X, but it doesn't explain why some applications use those fonts by default and others don't. That's my real problem. Yes it does. The last paragraph states: Anti-aliasing should be enabled the next time the X server is started. However, programs must know how to take advantage of it. At present, the Qt toolkit does, so the entire KDE environment can use anti-aliased fonts (see Section 5.7.3.2 on KDE for details). Gtk+ and GNOME can also be made to use anti-aliasing via the ``Font'' capplet (see Section 5.7.1.3 for details). By default, Mozilla 1.2 and greater will automatically use anti-aliasing. To disable this, rebuild Mozilla with the -DWITHOUT_XFT flag. So, do you have gVim built with gtk+-2 support, and have you done what section 5.7.3.2 tells you for KDE/Qt apps (i.e. set QT_XFT to true)? I don't use KDE nor Gnome, but as I understand it any application which is built with either Qt or Gtk+-2 support should be capable of using anti-aliased fonts. What I'm asking is how do I: Yes, per the cross-referenced sections in the above paragraph, you may have to do some additional setting of variables if you do not use the respective desktops. 1. find out before building an application whether it will be built with support for either of those, As things are right now, looking at the ports' Makefiles is your best bet. OK, that's what I was looking for. Thanks. 2. make sure that such support is added if it's not there by default (which I should be able to establish in step 1). Once you figure out the variable to set, you can add it to make.conf or pkgtools.conf (or both). Does this mean that the name of the variable governing the AA fonts will be the same for any application which can use them? That's cool. Thanks for your help. Cheers, Bernard ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Anti aliased fonts in FBSD
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 01:58, Bernard El-Hagin wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 01:41, Bernard El-Hagin wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 01:17, Bernard El-Hagin wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 00:46, Bernard El-Hagin wrote: Hello, When I install some appliactions from ports they have nice anti-aliased fonts by default (gaim, for example). Unfortunately others do not (most notably gVim and also LinCVS, both of which are capable of using them). Where exactly is this governed? How do I tell applications to always use anti-aliased fonts? I am running CURRENT. There's a section on this in the FreeBSD handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-fonts.html Thanks to that section of the handbook I have enabled anti-aliased fonts in X, but it doesn't explain why some applications use those fonts by default and others don't. That's my real problem. Yes it does. The last paragraph states: Anti-aliasing should be enabled the next time the X server is started. However, programs must know how to take advantage of it. At present, the Qt toolkit does, so the entire KDE environment can use anti-aliased fonts (see Section 5.7.3.2 on KDE for details). Gtk+ and GNOME can also be made to use anti-aliasing via the ``Font'' capplet (see Section 5.7.1.3 for details). By default, Mozilla 1.2 and greater will automatically use anti-aliasing. To disable this, rebuild Mozilla with the -DWITHOUT_XFT flag. So, do you have gVim built with gtk+-2 support, and have you done what section 5.7.3.2 tells you for KDE/Qt apps (i.e. set QT_XFT to true)? I don't use KDE nor Gnome, but as I understand it any application which is built with either Qt or Gtk+-2 support should be capable of using anti-aliased fonts. What I'm asking is how do I: Yes, per the cross-referenced sections in the above paragraph, you may have to do some additional setting of variables if you do not use the respective desktops. 1. find out before building an application whether it will be built with support for either of those, As things are right now, looking at the ports' Makefiles is your best bet. OK, that's what I was looking for. Thanks. 2. make sure that such support is added if it's not there by default (which I should be able to establish in step 1). Once you figure out the variable to set, you can add it to make.conf or pkgtools.conf (or both). Does this mean that the name of the variable governing the AA fonts will be the same for any application which can use them? That's cool. No. WITH[OUT]_XFT is what some ports use, but some ports will use AA as long as they're built with a supporting toolkit (e.g. vim). In those cases, you have to set the make variable to enable the port to build with that toolkit (e.g. WITH_GTK2). Joe Thanks for your help. Cheers, Bernard ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Anti aliased fonts in FBSD
Hello, When I install some appliactions from ports they have nice anti-aliased fonts by default (gaim, for example). Unfortunately others do not (most notably gVim and also LinCVS, both of which are capable of using them). Where exactly is this governed? How do I tell applications to always use anti-aliased fonts? I am running CURRENT. Thanks. Cheers, Bernard ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Anti aliased fonts in FBSD
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 00:46, Bernard El-Hagin wrote: Hello, When I install some appliactions from ports they have nice anti-aliased fonts by default (gaim, for example). Unfortunately others do not (most notably gVim and also LinCVS, both of which are capable of using them). Where exactly is this governed? How do I tell applications to always use anti-aliased fonts? I am running CURRENT. There's a section on this in the FreeBSD handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-fonts.html Joe Thanks. Cheers, Bernard ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Anti aliased fonts in FBSD
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 00:46, Bernard El-Hagin wrote: Hello, When I install some appliactions from ports they have nice anti-aliased fonts by default (gaim, for example). Unfortunately others do not (most notably gVim and also LinCVS, both of which are capable of using them). Where exactly is this governed? How do I tell applications to always use anti-aliased fonts? I am running CURRENT. There's a section on this in the FreeBSD handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-fonts.html Thanks to that section of the handbook I have enabled anti-aliased fonts in X, but it doesn't explain why some applications use those fonts by default and others don't. That's my real problem. Cheers, Bernard ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Anti aliased fonts in FBSD
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 01:17, Bernard El-Hagin wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 00:46, Bernard El-Hagin wrote: Hello, When I install some appliactions from ports they have nice anti-aliased fonts by default (gaim, for example). Unfortunately others do not (most notably gVim and also LinCVS, both of which are capable of using them). Where exactly is this governed? How do I tell applications to always use anti-aliased fonts? I am running CURRENT. There's a section on this in the FreeBSD handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-fonts.html Thanks to that section of the handbook I have enabled anti-aliased fonts in X, but it doesn't explain why some applications use those fonts by default and others don't. That's my real problem. Yes it does. The last paragraph states: Anti-aliasing should be enabled the next time the X server is started. However, programs must know how to take advantage of it. At present, the Qt toolkit does, so the entire KDE environment can use anti-aliased fonts (see Section 5.7.3.2 on KDE for details). Gtk+ and GNOME can also be made to use anti-aliasing via the ``Font'' capplet (see Section 5.7.1.3 for details). By default, Mozilla 1.2 and greater will automatically use anti-aliasing. To disable this, rebuild Mozilla with the -DWITHOUT_XFT flag. So, do you have gVim built with gtk+-2 support, and have you done what section 5.7.3.2 tells you for KDE/Qt apps (i.e. set QT_XFT to true)? Joe Cheers, Bernard ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Anti aliased fonts in FBSD
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 01:17, Bernard El-Hagin wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 00:46, Bernard El-Hagin wrote: Hello, When I install some appliactions from ports they have nice anti-aliased fonts by default (gaim, for example). Unfortunately others do not (most notably gVim and also LinCVS, both of which are capable of using them). Where exactly is this governed? How do I tell applications to always use anti-aliased fonts? I am running CURRENT. There's a section on this in the FreeBSD handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-fonts.html Thanks to that section of the handbook I have enabled anti-aliased fonts in X, but it doesn't explain why some applications use those fonts by default and others don't. That's my real problem. Yes it does. The last paragraph states: Anti-aliasing should be enabled the next time the X server is started. However, programs must know how to take advantage of it. At present, the Qt toolkit does, so the entire KDE environment can use anti-aliased fonts (see Section 5.7.3.2 on KDE for details). Gtk+ and GNOME can also be made to use anti-aliasing via the ``Font'' capplet (see Section 5.7.1.3 for details). By default, Mozilla 1.2 and greater will automatically use anti-aliasing. To disable this, rebuild Mozilla with the -DWITHOUT_XFT flag. So, do you have gVim built with gtk+-2 support, and have you done what section 5.7.3.2 tells you for KDE/Qt apps (i.e. set QT_XFT to true)? I don't use KDE nor Gnome, but as I understand it any application which is built with either Qt or Gtk+-2 support should be capable of using anti-aliased fonts. What I'm asking is how do I: 1. find out before building an application whether it will be built with support for either of those, 2. make sure that such support is added if it's not there by default (which I should be able to establish in step 1). Thanks. Cheers, Bernard ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Anti aliased fonts in FBSD
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 01:41, Bernard El-Hagin wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 01:17, Bernard El-Hagin wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 00:46, Bernard El-Hagin wrote: Hello, When I install some appliactions from ports they have nice anti-aliased fonts by default (gaim, for example). Unfortunately others do not (most notably gVim and also LinCVS, both of which are capable of using them). Where exactly is this governed? How do I tell applications to always use anti-aliased fonts? I am running CURRENT. There's a section on this in the FreeBSD handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-fonts.html Thanks to that section of the handbook I have enabled anti-aliased fonts in X, but it doesn't explain why some applications use those fonts by default and others don't. That's my real problem. Yes it does. The last paragraph states: Anti-aliasing should be enabled the next time the X server is started. However, programs must know how to take advantage of it. At present, the Qt toolkit does, so the entire KDE environment can use anti-aliased fonts (see Section 5.7.3.2 on KDE for details). Gtk+ and GNOME can also be made to use anti-aliasing via the ``Font'' capplet (see Section 5.7.1.3 for details). By default, Mozilla 1.2 and greater will automatically use anti-aliasing. To disable this, rebuild Mozilla with the -DWITHOUT_XFT flag. So, do you have gVim built with gtk+-2 support, and have you done what section 5.7.3.2 tells you for KDE/Qt apps (i.e. set QT_XFT to true)? I don't use KDE nor Gnome, but as I understand it any application which is built with either Qt or Gtk+-2 support should be capable of using anti-aliased fonts. What I'm asking is how do I: Yes, per the cross-referenced sections in the above paragraph, you may have to do some additional setting of variables if you do not use the respective desktops. 1. find out before building an application whether it will be built with support for either of those, As things are right now, looking at the ports' Makefiles is your best bet. 2. make sure that such support is added if it's not there by default (which I should be able to establish in step 1). Once you figure out the variable to set, you can add it to make.conf or pkgtools.conf (or both). Joe Thanks. Cheers, Bernard ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
