Anti-Aliased Fonts and FC3T2

Enrico Scholz enrico.scholz at informatik.tu-chemnitz.de
Thu Sep 23 14:43:37 UTC 2004


ByteEnable at austin.rr.com (ByteEnable) writes:

> Since Fedora Core 2, I've always had a problem with anti-aliased
> fonts. The problem is that I could never get gnome and kde AA fonts
> right when using kde as my desktop.  Whenever I would launch a GTK
> app, the AA fonts were rendered incorrectly.  I would have to open up
> a konsole and type "gnome-font-properties" to get AA turned on for the
> GTK apps.  That is still the case with FC2T3.  How can get AA fonts
> turned on for GTK apps without having to manual do it?

You will have to execute '/usr/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon'. But
beware: Gnome tries to rule the world and is very invasive. After this
step, lot of your KDE and X setting will be overridden (e.g. keyboard
setup, application fonts+colors, mouse-speed, screensaver, ...).

See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=117221 or
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=103521 also.



Enrico





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