Anti aliased fonts in FBSD

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 01:58, Bernard El-Hagin wrote:
> owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org wrote:
> 
> >On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 01:41, Bernard El-Hagin wrote:
> >> owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org wrote:
> >> 
> >> >On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 01:17, Bernard El-Hagin wrote:
> >> >> 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.
> >> >
> >> >Yes it does.  The last paragraph states:
> >> >
> >> >"Anti-aliasing should be enabled the next time the X server is started.
> >> >However, programs must know how to take advantage of it. At present, the
> >> >Qt toolkit does, so the entire KDE environment can use anti-aliased
> >> >fonts (see Section 5.7.3.2 on KDE for details). Gtk+ and GNOME can also
> >> >be made to use anti-aliasing via the ``Font'' capplet (see Section
> >> >5.7.1.3 for details). By default, Mozilla 1.2 and greater will
> >> >automatically use anti-aliasing. To disable this, rebuild Mozilla with
> >> >the -DWITHOUT_XFT flag."
> >> >
> >> >So, do you have gVim built with gtk+-2 support, and have you done what
> >> >section 5.7.3.2 tells you for KDE/Qt apps (i.e. set QT_XFT to true)?
> >> 
> >> 
> >> I don't use KDE nor Gnome, but as I understand it any application which
> >> is built with either Qt or Gtk+-2 support should be capable of using
> >> anti-aliased fonts. What I'm asking is how do I:
> >
> >Yes, per the cross-referenced sections in the above paragraph, you may
> >have to do some additional setting of variables if you do not use the
> >respective desktops.
> >
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 1. find out before building an application whether it will be built with
> >> support for either of those,
> >
> >As things are right now, looking at the ports' Makefiles is your best
> >bet.
> 
> 
> OK, that's what I was looking for. Thanks.
> 
> 
> >> 2. make sure that such support is added if it's not there by default
> >> (which I should be able to establish in step 1).
> >
> >Once you figure out the variable to set, you can add it to make.conf or
> >pkgtools.conf (or both).
> 
> 
> Does this mean that the name of the variable governing the AA fonts will
> be the same for any application which can use them? That's cool.

No.  WITH[OUT]_XFT is what some ports use, but some ports will use AA as
long as they're built with a supporting toolkit (e.g. vim).  In those
cases, you have to set the make variable to enable the port to build
with that toolkit (e.g. WITH_GTK2).

Joe

> 
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Bernard
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