[K12OSN] anti-aliased fonts?

[Eric Harrison]

On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, Richard Duran wrote:

>On the server, XSERVER is set to "auto" in lts.conf:[Default]
>
>Should this be visible anywhere on the client?
>
>-richard

I just logged into a remote VNC session (should be the same as a terminal)
and ran:

	xdpyinfo | less


About the 20 line is the Extentions section "number of extensions..."
Mine shows 29 extensions, but I know these three are XFree86 4.x specific:

    FontCache
    RANDR
    RENDER


If xdpyinfo reports that you have these extensions, you *should* have
anti-aliased fonts.

You can also run gnome-font-properties (a.k.a. "start" -> preferences ->
font). I've never tried this on a XFree86 3.x terminal, but on XFree86 4.x
the changes are visably apparent in real-time.


-Eric

>On Sun, 2004-02-22 at 14:40, Eric Harrison wrote:
>> On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, Richard Duran wrote:
>> 
>> >Interesting. Running Mozilla on the server displays to the client using
>> >anti-aliased fonts. Running Mozilla locally (on the client) displays
>> >using non-anti-aliased fonts.
>> >
>> >Any suggestions? The natives are getting restless....
>> 
>> Please re-read my previous response:
>> 
>> >On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 14:09, Eric Harrison wrote:
>> >> 
>> >> Are you using XFree86 v3 or v4 on the terminals?
>> >> 
>> >> If you have the xserver defined as: XSERVER=XF86_<something>,
>> >> you are using XFree86 v3. This does not support the nice anti-
>> >> aliased fonts.
>> >> 
>> >> If you have the xserver defined as: XSERVER=auto (or svga, or ati,
>> >> or some other "lowercase" entry), you are using XFree86 v4. Anti-
>> >> aliased fonts should be the default.
>> >> 
>> >> -Eric