Steve Gaede wrote:
> Update: Nope, that wasn't it. The fonts looked right for
> a bit and now it's back to the way it was... unusable.
>
> I can't figure out what changed to make the problem
> come back... and so it's clear that my guess as to
> what made it go away was wrong.
>
> Any suggestions as to what to look at with the
> X Server are welcome!
The X server won't "smooth" or anti-alias fonts at all - the
X clients do that and send the finished images to the X server.
(Except maybe if you're using the nvidia driver and have played
with the anti-aliasing settings in the nvidia control panel -
I don't know exactly what those do.)
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering