Hi list,
I'm having some issues with KDE-3.2 (which I compiled myself), regarding the rendering of Anti-Aliased Fonts. I have a feeling I am overlooking something *really* simple, or something plain weird is happening. Either way, it's something that I cannot explain.
-- Problem description
I downloaded Konstruct, made sure my libraries were up-to-date, and started the build-process. This all went OK. After it was installed, I ran it, and wanted to enable Anti-Aliasing.
After I have enabled it, and start up, say Konsole, from the panel, it comes up, without any anti-aliasing. So I thought I needed to restart X, which I did.
When the KDE comes up, it displays the Splash Screen, in which the progress-text (like Initializing peripherals, etc) *does* appear anti-aliased, but when kdesktop and kicker load, they just show the crappy un-anti-aliased font.
<SNIP stuff that we might need to get back to later>
First about Konsole. The text in Konsole should NOT be AntiAlised if you are using the standard Konsole fonts -- i.e you selected them by: Small, Medium, Large, etc.. However, this font should be an unscaled bitmap font and should look good.
Second all of the other stuff. The font system for KDE is handled by Qt and Qt depends on Xft[2], FontConfig, and FreeType2.
So, the first guess is that when you compiled Qt that it didn't find one or more of these three dependent libraries.
There are specific issues with these libraries.
If they are not installed with a prefix of: "/usr" or "/usr/X11R6" then Qt will not find them (unless this has been fixed in the newer versions) unless you tell it where to look.
If you have more than one version of Xft or FreeType2 (you can also have FreeType[1] installed -- no problem) then you might also have problems. They might have come with XFree86 and you might have also installed them separately.
It is also possible that if you installed Xft[2] from RPMs that it doesn't have the same name as if it was built from source. Don't you just hate it when that happens. :-) In that case, a link might do the trick if that doesn't create a name conflict.
My configure command for Qt-3.2.x is:
./configure -system-zlib -qt-gif -system-libpng -system-libjpeg \ -system-libmng -thread -no-xinerama -no-g++-exceptions -qt-sql-mysql \ -I/usr/local/include/mysql -L/usr/local/lib/mysql
I have no problem with the above font stuff, but note how I had to add the locations for the includes and the libraries for: "mysql". This is what you need to do if you have the font stuff somewhere else.
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