Re: How turn off antialiasing? Gnome problem?

John,  Thanks much!  In my .bash_profile, I added the lines:
	
   GDK_USE_XFT=0
   export GDK_USE_XFT

I restarted X and Galeon was usable again.  As you say, there really
should be an "XFT anti-aliasing off" button somewhere in the Gnome GUI. 
Googling around, it seems that a lot of people are having difficulties
with it -- maybe not most people, but enough that anti-aliasing should
disableable until it has fully matured.

Scott
	
On Thu, 2003-04-24 at 13:12, John M. Gabriele wrote:
> >How can I turn off font anti-aliasing and get a display like I had
> >before I installed the XFT version of Mozilla/Galeon?
> 
> I seem to recall that there's some gtk environment variable
> that you can set, and then restart X, to get the gtk+ apps
> to not use antialiasing -- but I'm at work and don't have
> the name of it in front of me. Check /usr/share/doc/gtk
> or somewhere like that for info on something like
> GTK_ENABLE_XFT or somesuch. I'll post to the list when
> I get home if no one else has offered any advice.
> 
> >I know a lot of people are enthusiastic about font anti-aliasing but
> >when I installed galeon-1.3.0, I discovered that I definitely was not
> >one of them.
> 
> I assume that Galeon is a gtk+ app and that setting the
> variable I allude to will "fix" it.
> 
> >  Even though I'm using TrueType fonts (MS Georgia), the New
> >York Times web page was far less readable on my Redhat 8.0 laptop than
> >it was with galeon 1.2.1.
> 
> Have you rebuilt freetype to use the prohibited truetype
> rendering algorithms? If you plan on using truetype fonts,
> you should definitely do this.
> 
> Personally, I like Luxi Sans Serif.
> 
> >  [snip
> >I tried turning anti-aliasing off on the XFT level by following the
> >advice on:
> >
> >        http://thesapphirecat.iwarp.com/present/program/xft.html
> 
> Whoops. Haven't looked at that yet.
> 
> >... The best results were with subpixel smoothing,
> 
> Yuck! :)
> 
> > [snip] I can't find a "turn off anti-aliasing button" in
> > Gnome.  Is there one? 
> >
> 
> There *really* should be.




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