More antialiasing problems

Valen · Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2002 2:09 am Post subject: More antialiasing problems

I've tried going through the steps to enable AA but I don't think it has worked, and I am certain that subpixel AA has not.
A checklist of what I have done:

added directories to XftConfig and XF86Config
loading "freetype" and "type1" modules

I didn't see any change

I added 'match edit rgba = rgb;' to XftConfig ... no change.

I am using xfontsel to judge whether or not there is a change in the font display and some of them (true type) look jagged.

btw, if someone can at least help me get gVim looking pretty I can tolerate the rest.

Thanks

AutoBot · l33t Joined: 22 Apr 2002 Posts: 968 Location: Usually Out

Try launching xterm in the following mannor to see if aa is indeed working:

Valen · Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2002 11:26 pm Post subject:

You were right, xfontsel does not show any antialiasing but I've never seen a better looking xterm.

ATerm, however, does not antialias and neither does gVim, is it possible to get them to do this?

Thanks for the help.

puddpunk · l33t Joined: 20 Jul 2002 Posts: 681 Location: New Zealand

aterm doesnt support antialiased fonts.

And im pretty sure i've heard somewhere that GTk apps arnt that good at it either.

You might have to have a google about it, see what you can dig up.

Vann · Guru Joined: 04 Aug 2002 Posts: 357

I'm pretty sure GTK 1 apps don't have any ability to do AA fonts outside of the gdkxft hack. GTK 2, however, fully supports AA.

AutoBot · l33t Joined: 22 Apr 2002 Posts: 968 Location: Usually Out

There is a hack that allows gtk+ 1.x applications to use anti-aliasing.
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Valen · Posted: Wed Aug 21, 2002 7:36 am Post subject:

The googling I have does has led me to gdkxft which I have installed ... kind of. I copied this .gtkrc file into my home directory like it requested, after the emerge it said my XftConfig file was ok, but it doesn't do anything. I haven't been able to find any sort of guide for gdkxft online either. The readme does have some useful suggestions for troubleshooting and I am going through that at the moment. I would be nice to know if I was working towards an unattainable goal: does anyone have an antialiased gVim running?

And thanks again for the help.

AutoBot · l33t Joined: 22 Apr 2002 Posts: 968 Location: Usually Out

I used it some time ago on a debian box and it worked fine, never tried it with gvim but I can only say that it would have to work being that it is a gtk+ application.
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Valen · Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2002 5:24 am Post subject:

Ok, just for future searchers looking for answers:
Near the end of the readme it suggests the possibility that the LD_PRELOAD environment variable is being cleared, this was the problem in my case. Launching X with 'LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libgdkxft.so startx' solved this problem.

My gVim looks quite good now, thanks everyone.

netghost · n00b Joined: 04 Jul 2002 Posts: 12

Valen · Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2002 4:53 am Post subject:

Just another thing to remember: edit your gdkxft.conf file. The rules are (and I am working off the top of my head here) !<font> means no antialiasing for that font, and <font> enables antialiasing for that font. You can use wildcards.

Good luck

[edit: corrected file to gdkxft.conf]