Re: How turn off antialiasing? Gnome problem?

[Scott Otterson <scotto u washington edu>]

Stuart,

Thanks for the tip.  Previously, I remember that I tried most of the
things you recommend but possibly not all of them at the same time.   
Anyway, the best result I got was anti-aliasing sort-of turned off but
with text missing big chunks.

Setting the environment variable GDK_USE_XFT=0 finally did get fully rid
of anti-aliasing and restored everything to aliased visibility.  Did
setting the  environment variable not work for you?  

Also, do you happen to know if the Nautilus preference toggles
GDK_USE_XFT?

Scott

> From: Stuart Swerdloff <stuarts megapathdsl net>
>
> Hi Scott,
> 
>    I agree, the Anti-Aliasing should be turned off until
> they get the interoperability/bugs worked out.
> 
>    I use RedHat 7.2 (on one computer, anyway)
> 
>    I spent 12 hours hunting down where XFree86 4.3.0 had
> blown away my gnome-session, as well as trying to figure out
> how to turn off the anti-aliasing.  In gnome, in nautilus,
> Preferences->Intermediate
> Preferences->Edit Prefrences->Appearance-> uncheck "use smoother (but 
> slower) graphics"
> 
>    I added the following near the bottom of
> /etc/fonts/fonts.conf
> 
> <match target="font">
>    <edit name="antialias" mode="assign">
>        <bool>false</bool>
>    </edit>
> </match>
> 
> I put the following in /etc/X11/XftConfig
> match
>    any size < 48
>    any size > 1
>    edit antialias=false;
> 
> 
> to just turn it all off.  So many things got so badly hosed with the
> anti - aliasing, I just don't want it until I've seen enough discussion
> about how to make it *work*.
> 
> I also had to remove the contents of /etc/X11/xsm/system.xsm
> and replace it with the single entry:
> gnome-session
> 
> 
> I hope this helps anyone else who gets stuck with either their 
> gnome-session disappearing, or their fonts blowing up...
> 
> Stuart