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

Torgeir Veimo wrote:
> 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! :)
> 

That's strictly temporary.  Also, you can set the subpixel font 
rendering from your ~/.fonts.conf which they both support.

--Chris