>> How can I make fonts be rendered like, say, GTK1 does, that >> is without any anti-aliasing whatsoever but still keeping >> the main font "lines" clear. Simply turning AA off seems >> to produce "mushy" characters, definitely not what I was >> expecting. Unless you're running Debian, you need to recompile your FreeType library (not the FreeType module in XFree86!) with #define TT_CONFIG_OPTION_BYTECODE_INTERPRETER at line 382 of ftoption.h. Juliusz