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#1 2003-02-16 14:29:16
- sinister
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fluxbox anti aliased fonts
Hey all,
I'm trying to find out how to change the size of the fonts and the buttons in fluxbox when you turn on antialiasing.
eg: the dash square and x in the top right end up becoming huge.
the fonts are too big.
when i try to adjust the fonts size in the style file.. it has no affect.
anyone know how to adjust these settings?! Not critical but i thought i'd ask. 
I bought a dog the other day...I named him Stay. It's fun to call him... "Come here, Stay! Come here, Stay!" He went insane. Now he just ignores me and drools.
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#2 2003-02-16 16:38:58
- jk
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Re: fluxbox anti aliased fonts
Something like this for arial at size 10:
*font: arial-10
in the style file of course...
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#3 2003-02-16 22:58:13
- sinister
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Re: fluxbox anti aliased fonts
Uh. no.. that changes the fonts yes.. but not in the antialiased state.. I've tried.
I bought a dog the other day...I named him Stay. It's fun to call him... "Come here, Stay! Come here, Stay!" He went insane. Now he just ignores me and drools.
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#4 2003-02-17 07:48:47
- Arielext
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Re: fluxbox anti aliased fonts
have you tried the xfthack? a.k.a. smoothxft?
you can find it with google. It replaces one file with a prebuild-xft version
apt-get install arch
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#5 2003-02-17 11:30:10
- sinister
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Re: fluxbox anti aliased fonts
Sorry man, i'm not quite sure I follow you. Fluxbox has it's own antialiasing. I don't need an xft hack. My question was about changing the font sizes for fluxbox once antialiasing is enabled.
I bought a dog the other day...I named him Stay. It's fun to call him... "Come here, Stay! Come here, Stay!" He went insane. Now he just ignores me and drools.
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#6 2003-02-17 15:24:32
- Arielext
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Re: fluxbox anti aliased fonts
woops, sorry my bad!
apt-get install arch
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#7 2003-10-16 01:01:30
- marin_linuxer
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Re: fluxbox anti aliased fonts
Has anyone figured this out?
I'd be interested, too.
It seems that my 'local.conf' in /etc/fonts/ ensures that my Bitstream Vera fonts get used, .... but how do I adjust their size?
Hmmm, ... wondering if this has to do with the XFT defaults somewhere(!?).
-- Linux! Isn't it time?
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#8 2003-11-23 07:49:03
- phrakture
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Re: fluxbox anti aliased fonts
run fluxbox -info and see if XFT is enabled.
If its not you need to rebuild (or redownload) the package
Personally I'm haing problems building fluxbox 0.9.6 with XFT enabled through abs.... don't know why... looking into it.
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#9 2003-11-23 07:51:59
- phrakture
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Re: fluxbox anti aliased fonts
and whoops to answer your question:
*font: Arial
becomes
*font: Arial:size=10
that is if Arial-10 does not work
there are numerous options that can be thrown after the : for freetype based ttf fonts, however size is the most common.
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