On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 17:13:48 +0200 Sven Neumann <sven@gimp.org> wrote: <snip> > GTK+-2.2 by default uses Xft2 to render antialiased fonts > while GTK+-2.0 defaulted to the old-fashioned X11 core > fonts. If you really don't like the new font rendering, > you can set the environment variable GDK_USE_XFT to 0. But > you should be aware that the old server-side font > rendering will not stay forever, it is likely not to be > supported with future releases of Pango. > > You can improve the text rendering by using an uptodate > version of freetype2. Also, enabling the truetype bytecode > interpreter in freetype2 improves the legibility of small > fonts. Thank-you very much for that Sven. I already have freetype 2.1.4 (which seems to be current), with the bytecode interpreter enabled. I set GDK_USE_XFT=0 and (as you anticipated), everything went back to normal, so at least I know that I can use that for the time being. It is a pain that this won't last because I strongly prefer the look and feel of GTK+ applications to (eg) Qt ones. Personal preferences vary so much. If my system is set up properly (I am going to re-ckeck everything), then, from my perspective, I simply can't imagine how anyone could find the new rendering to be any kind of improvement over the old one. Thanks again, Geoff
