John, Thanks much! In my .bash_profile, I added the lines: GDK_USE_XFT=0 export GDK_USE_XFT I restarted X and Galeon was usable again. As you say, there really should be an "XFT anti-aliasing off" button somewhere in the Gnome GUI. Googling around, it seems that a lot of people are having difficulties with it -- maybe not most people, but enough that anti-aliasing should disableable until it has fully matured. Scott On Thu, 2003-04-24 at 13:12, John M. Gabriele wrote: > >How can I turn off font anti-aliasing and get a display like I had > >before I installed the XFT version of Mozilla/Galeon? > > I seem to recall that there's some gtk environment variable > that you can set, and then restart X, to get the gtk+ apps > to not use antialiasing -- but I'm at work and don't have > the name of it in front of me. Check /usr/share/doc/gtk > or somewhere like that for info on something like > GTK_ENABLE_XFT or somesuch. I'll post to the list when > I get home if no one else has offered any advice. > > >I know a lot of people are enthusiastic about font anti-aliasing but > >when I installed galeon-1.3.0, I discovered that I definitely was not > >one of them. > > I assume that Galeon is a gtk+ app and that setting the > variable I allude to will "fix" it. > > > Even though I'm using TrueType fonts (MS Georgia), the New > >York Times web page was far less readable on my Redhat 8.0 laptop than > >it was with galeon 1.2.1. > > Have you rebuilt freetype to use the prohibited truetype > rendering algorithms? If you plan on using truetype fonts, > you should definitely do this. > > Personally, I like Luxi Sans Serif. > > > [snip > >I tried turning anti-aliasing off on the XFT level by following the > >advice on: > > > > http://thesapphirecat.iwarp.com/present/program/xft.html > > Whoops. Haven't looked at that yet. > > >... The best results were with subpixel smoothing, > > Yuck! :) > > > [snip] I can't find a "turn off anti-aliasing button" in > > Gnome. Is there one? > > > > There *really* should be. _______________________________________________ xfree86-list mailing list xfree86-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xfree86-list IRC: #xfree86 on irc.redhat.com
