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
