On Sun, 28 Jul 2002, Paul Hoepfner-Homme wrote: >Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 22:16:16 -0400 >From: Paul Hoepfner-Homme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="us-ascii" >List-Id: General X Discussion <xpert.XFree86.Org> >Subject: XftConfig is ignored > >Hello, > >I've been trying to figure out why I can't enable sub-pixel antialiasing with >my Radeon card in XFree86 4.2.0 (actually the DRI CVS branch), and I've now >concluded that it's because no XFT configuration files are ever being read. > >I have the file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XftConfig with a bunch of font directories >and match settings listed, including the line "match edit rgba = rgb;" to >enable sub-pixel antialiasing. That line didn't seem to have any effect (nor >did changing it to bgr, vrgb, or vbgr). So I also added the line "match edit >antialias = false;" to the file just to see if the file was even being read. >I then ran "xterm -fa 'lucida console' -fs 10", expecting fonts not to be >antialiased, but they still were! > >So then I tried setting XFT_CONFIG to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XftConfig, but that >made no difference. I can't get XFT to use the settings in XftConfig. > >Anyone have a clue why XftConfig isn't being used? Do I have to enable some >option before compiling XFree86 to say that I want to be able to use an >XftConfig file?
DRI-CVS might be using the new Xft code. If so, then XftConfig is obsolete, having been replaced by fontconfig. -- Mike A. Harris Shipping/mailing address: OS Systems Engineer 190 Pittsburgh Ave., Sault Ste. Marie, XFree86 maintainer Ontario, Canada, P6C 5B3 Red Hat Inc. http://www.redhat.com ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
