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List:       mandrake-cooker
Subject:    Re: [Cooker] GNOME 2.2.1 Desktop
From:       James Sparenberg <james () opencountry ! org>
Date:       2003-03-18 18:40:45
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On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 10:20, Jan Ciger wrote:
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> > Jan,
> >    I get the same thing here in a regular window (ie my desktop)
> > anti-aliasing etc is working fine.  But only in vnc or Xnest do the qt
> > applications give this kind of error.  Same version of vnc in 9.0 works
> > fine.  So I don't suspect vnc.
> 
> You do get the same error when running the same app directly (without Xnest or 
> VNC) ? Then how come that the antialiasing works, when it does not have 
> Render ? Either I am missing something or we do not understand each other.

oops should have said I don't get... my bad.
> 
> > If you do (and you are right, it is butt ugly) disable it you still get
> > this same error.  But again only in Xnest or vnc.
> 
> But you have to recompile Qt for that. If you just unset the option in KDE and 
> unset the environment variables for that (QT_XFT or something like that), 
> that does not help - Qt will not use antialiasing, but will still require it. 
> 
> When you compile Qt, there is an option -xft and -xrender, which control this 
> behavior and both are on by default : 
> 
> 
>     -no-xrender ........ Do not compile XRender support.
>  *  -xrender ........... Compile XRender support.
>                          Requires X11/extensions/Xrender.h and libXrender.
> 
>     -no-xft ............ Do not compile Xft (anti-aliased font) support.
>  *  -xft ............... Compile Xft support.
>                          Requires X11/Xft/XftFreetype.h and libXft.
> 
> I guess, that on a display, which does not support XRender extension, code 
> linked again a library compiled with these on will fail. I think, that 
> neither VNC and XNest support it on their emulated displays.  
> 
> Jan
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