[openbox] Xft and RedHat 8

[Pat Martin]

I have compiled 2.3.0 with no problems but I still don't think I am
getting AntiAliased fonts. Any ideas? There is no option in the openbox
menu for xft does that mean that it is not compiling it with xft support
in? When I go into the rc file it has antialiasFonts as true (it was
that by default). I have a screenshot of fieron2 

http://www.pe.net/~pmartin/Screenshot.png

When I compare that to:

http://icculus.org/openbox/shots/full/xor_fieron2.png

There is a fair difference.

Fieron2 uses Veranda and that font is available in phoenix, mozilla and
gnome so I am not sure what the problem is.

Any suggestions would be welcome. 

I am running RedHat 8



On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 12:54:43PM -0600, Ben Jansens wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 10:45:29PM -0800, Pat Martin wrote:
> > 
> > I have been playing with openbox in RedHat 8 and I really like it. I
> > have a question concerning AntiAliased Fonts. I don't think openbox is
> > using AA fonts when needed I have added some true type fonts in the
> > ~/.font directory and they appear in mozilla and other apps just fine
> > but when different styles call for them the styles end up with really
> > small fonts and changing font sizes in the style doesn't seem to affect
> > it. I notice on the web site that it talks about a proper Xft file but
> > RedHat 8 doesn't use an Xft.conf file. Anyone have ideas how I can fix
> > this problem?
> 
> If you're using Openxbox 2.x with Xft 2, I'd recomment upgrading to 2.3.0.
> This is most likely your problem. 2.x had some issues with font loading that
> have been fixed.
> 
> Ben
> -- 
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> 
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