Re: Gnome/X font smoothing

look in /etc/X11/Sessions/Gnome and see how the gdm script does it ..
its a variable you export, called   GDK_USE_XFT


this and some other caveats are on http://gentoo.org/~spider/

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On 30 Aug 2002 08:24:58 +0200
Joseph Santaniello <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello All,
> 
> When I startx as a user, with gnome-session in my .xinitrc Gnome2
> starts up fine and looks fine. When as root I run gdm (without
> starting X first, gdm starts it) then login as the user selecting
> Gnome session the same Gnome session loads up but this time the fonts
> are antialiased. Also when X starts it shows a watch cursor instead of
> the X cursor while it is starting up. What is gdm doing when it starts
> X that is giving me antialiased fonts? I want antialiased fonts also
> when I run startx. I checked ps aux to see if any special parameters
> are passed to X, but I can't see anything that looks special.
> 
> How do I get antialiased fonts in Gnome2 when started from startx and
> .xinitrc ?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Joseph 
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