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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Either fix konsole or DO NOT SUPPORT AA!
From:       Kuba Ober <winnie () hoth ! amu ! edu ! pl>
Date:       2001-03-31 20:53:45
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> > > > Christian A Strømmen [Number1/NumeroUno] wrote:
> > > > > This is starting to worry me, when using AA you can't use konsole
> > > > > (without starting it with something like "sh -c "QT_XFT=0 ;
> > > > > konsole""), so what does this mean for KDE?  Well, first off all
> > > > > the new distributions coming out now will have AA support by
> > > > > default for all supported harware, this means that new users that
> > > > > tries linux for the first time will install (without knowing
> > > > > anything about AA), start up (with kde :) and when they start up
> > > > > the konsole (which they will sooner or later) they will have a lot
> > > > > of problems using this.
> > > >
> > > > Wouldn't it be useful to place 'putenv("QT_XFT=0");' as the first
> > > > line in konsole until it is fixed to work with AA fonts?
> > >
> > > Agree!  Could somebody do this till the problem is fixed?
> >
> > There is no problem, except if you have that version of X which has
> > the bug with fixed fonts !
> > Can you _please_ read the other answers to your post ?
>
> Well. I have the latest XFree version (4.0.3) and I still have this
> problem...  If you're talking about the cvs build then that doesn't help
> newbies that just converted to linux..

Revise your fonts configuration. It isn't trivial. For newbies it's the 
distro's job to make xfs serve right fonts. Nothing to do with KDE.

Cheerz, Kuba
 
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