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[ILUG] sub-pixel rendered AA

[ILUG] sub-pixel rendered AA

Justin Mason jm at jmason.org
Wed Oct 3 10:11:38 IST 2001


Anyone tried this yet?  It kicks ass!

Basically, if you've got XFree86 4.1.0 installed on a laptop with the MS
fonts, gdkxft will give you *decent* antialiasing in GTK+ apps, and if
you've got KDE 2.2 or later, you can simply set an env var. Sweet.

Normally, my opinion of AA is that it looks like I've lost my specs.
But with the sub-pixel rendering (similar to MS' ClearType), it really
cleans it up and looks a hell of a lot better.

Add this line to your ~/.Xdefaults:

	Xft.rgba: rgb

and set these env vars:

	export QT_XFT=true
	export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libgdkxft.so

and you're set.

--j.




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