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Infected
07-02-2001, 12:59 AM
I have the updated XFree86 (4.1.0) and I was wondering where I could find a really newbieized how-to on this. I know my card supports it, but all the how-to's I've found have been too complicated for me.

Thanks for any replies.
Malakin
07-02-2001, 03:15 AM
An option for it appears in Kmenu -> Configuration -> KDE -> LookNFeel -> Style for me using 4.0.3... Maybe this is the same in 4.1.0?
Infected
07-02-2001, 08:05 PM
Tried that, but it doesn't work. :(
Infected
07-03-2001, 03:10 AM
Anyone?
miker
07-03-2001, 04:23 AM
aa only works with truetype fonts - if you have any installed KDE 2.1.1 will automatically use them when you select aa fonts

also you need to check for sure if your driver supports the 'render' extension (4.0.3 mine wasn't supported, but it is under 4.1.0)

can't remember the command, but it's part of the X package, try RTFM, I'm sure it's in there somewhere

else use google. tis what I did ...
Infected
07-03-2001, 04:31 AM
I have TT fonts, but no anti-aliasing. And yes "render" exists.
miker
07-03-2001, 10:24 AM
again, I can't remember the specifics, but you need to 'install' the ttf fonts (one of the XF config files), plus use that weird 'mkfontdir' command (or similar)

there is HOWTO, but I'm too busy to find it for you, sorry!

fonts REALLY piss me off in Linux

http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/chofman_ttf_72.html

that's the howto on SuSE, give it a read through, it does suggest other things to check for, and the manual font install is reasonably generic

surely your distro must have similar support?

[ 03 July 2001: Message edited by: miker ]