Re: Xft(2)? in mozilla tree - AA the toolkit?

Torgeir Veimo <[email protected]> 08 Jun 2002 16:51:11 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.xfree86.render
Message-ID	<1023547873.3451.2.camel@hercules>

On Sat, 2002-06-08 at 03:32, [email protected] wrote:
> Note that stock Mozilla 1.0 does not use Xft, but does its own lame
> AA text.
> 
> However, Chris Blizzard has an Xft version of mozilla, which can be
> found at:
> 
> http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/experimental/xft/Red_Hat_7x_RPMS/
> at least for RH rpms.

The rc3 version used /etc/fonts/fonts.conf, while the 1.0.0 one uses its
own private fonts.conf. This caused me a lot of grief before I found
that out.

I will never go back to anything which cannot do subpixel font
rendering! :)

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-Torgeir