Anti aliased fonts in FBSD

[Bernard El-Hagin]

owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org wrote:

>On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 00:46, Bernard El-Hagin wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>>   When I install some appliactions from ports they have nice
>> anti-aliased fonts by default (gaim, for example). Unfortunately others
>> do not (most notably gVim and also LinCVS, both of which are capable of
>> using them). Where exactly is this governed? How do I tell applications
>> to always use anti-aliased fonts? I am running CURRENT.
>
>There's a section on this in the FreeBSD handbook:
>
>http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-fonts.html


Thanks to that section of the handbook I have enabled anti-aliased fonts
in X, but it doesn't explain why some applications use those fonts by
default and others don't. That's my real problem.


Cheers,
Bernard