XFree 4.3 - did AntiAliasing change?

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Mon, 2003-04-14 at 20:13, Derek at CD Baby wrote:
> Has anyone got anti-aliased fonts to work in FreeBSD 4.8?
> 
> In XFree 4.2, I would add my AntiAliased font directories to this file:
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XftConfig
> ... and everything was fine.
> 
> Now that file doesn't exist, and I can't get fonts to anti-alias, even if I 
> create that file and put the font directories there like I used to?
> 
> Did something change in XFree 4.3 in FreeBSD 4.8?

Yes.  XFree86 switched from Xft1 to Xft2.  This new version uses
fontconfig (for better or worse).

> 
> Are we supposed to use /usr/X11R6/etc/fonts/fonts.conf?

Yep.  Of course, this should all happen automatically.  What app are you
using that doesn't show anti-aliased fonts?

> 
> (Is someone going to update HANDBOOK chapter 5.5.3 Anti-Aliased Fonts, if so?

I had planned on it, but I've been busy.  It's still on my TODO.

Joe

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