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#1 2007-07-11 18:41:10

caust1c
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[Solved] Cant enable anti-aliased Fonts

Hi!
Yaft- Yet another Fontproblem Thread

I tried all those font configs from this forum/wiki/gentoowiki, but none helps me to enable Anti-Aliasing.

I also tried to symlink /etc/fonts/conf.avail/10-sub-pixel-rgb.conf  to /etc/fonts/conf.d but this doesnt help.

I reran fc-cache and restartet my xserver, the settings seme to be ignored. I dont use any DE, just dwm.

thx for reply smile

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#2 2007-07-11 18:52:16

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Re: [Solved] Cant enable anti-aliased Fonts

i these in ~/.Xdefaults

urxvt*font:             xft:Terminus:pixelsize=14

Xft*dpi:                96
Xft*antialias:          true
Xft*hinting:            full

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#3 2007-07-11 18:56:08

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Re: [Solved] Cant enable anti-aliased Fonts

doh!

i had xft*antialias: false in my .Xdefaults wall.gif

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#4 2007-08-30 21:03:21

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Re: [Solved] Cant enable anti-aliased Fonts

Am I mistaken or I can't see much of a difference in the dwm bar? The fonts there don't seem to have been affected by antialiasing...

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#5 2007-08-30 21:18:42

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Re: [Solved] Cant enable anti-aliased Fonts

finferflu wrote:

Am I mistaken or I can't see much of a difference in the dwm bar? The fonts there don't seem to have been affected by antialiasing...

$ ldd /usr/local/bin/dwm
        linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xb7f61000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xb7e19000)
        libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0xb7d30000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f62000)
        libxcb-xlib.so.0 => /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0 (0xb7d2e000)
        libxcb.so.1 => /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1 (0xb7d17000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0xb7d13000)
        libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXau.so.6 (0xb7d10000)
        libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6 (0xb7d0a000)

$ ldd /usr/bin/urxvt | grep font
        libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0xb7f3e000)

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#6 2007-08-30 21:40:34

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Re: [Solved] Cant enable anti-aliased Fonts

I get the same output over here...

 >ldd /usr/bin/dwm
        linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xb7f5a000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xb7e0e000)
        libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0xb7d25000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f5b000)
        libxcb-xlib.so.0 => /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0 (0xb7d23000)
        libxcb.so.1 => /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1 (0xb7d0c000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0xb7d08000)
        libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXau.so.6 (0xb7d05000)
        libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6 (0xb7cff000)
 >ldd /usr/bin/urxvt | grep font
        libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0xb7ea5000)

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#7 2007-08-30 22:22:56

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Re: [Solved] Cant enable anti-aliased Fonts

finferflu wrote:

I get the same output over here...

I was just showing that dwm didn't use fontconfig, so it isn't affected by /etc/fonts/ configs.

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#8 2007-08-30 22:59:18

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Re: [Solved] Cant enable anti-aliased Fonts

Cool, before replying I had the doubt that fontconfig was needed for antialiased fonts, so I had to choose my reply: either asking you if my speculation was right, or trying to show you my output to compare it with yours, obviously I picked the *right* one tongue

Thanks anyway smile

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#9 2007-08-31 10:30:06

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Re: [Solved] Cant enable anti-aliased Fonts

I don't know all details, but there are at least 3 parts : Xft , freetype and fontconfig.
I believe these always come together, at least they are all there for urxvt :

        libXft.so.2 => /usr/lib/libXft.so.2 (0xb7f4b000)
        libXrender.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXrender.so.1 (0xb7f43000)
        libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0xb7f18000)
        libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0xb7e9d000)

So maybe the actual anti aliasing is done by freetype, and freetype rendering can be configured thanks to fontconfig.
And Xft (which, according to the man page, is related to Xrender) might be the interface that the applications uses for opening / displaying fonts.

I guess the best way to understand this fully is to write a litte application using these libs smile
But I just wanted to give a quick way to find out if a given program supports this stuff or not.

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