Re: FVWM: New Debian package, second try

From: Erik Steffl <steffl_at_bigfoot.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 14:58:39 -0800

Adam Sjøgren wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 12:08:29 -0800, Erik wrote:
>
>>Adam Sjøgren wrote:
>
>>>I'm not getting anti-aliased fonts (I am in, for instance, Mozilla
>>>and Gnumeric; I didn't with my homebrew 2.5.7 either, though).
>
>> AFAIK anti-aliasing fonts in applications is not related to WM
>
> I was merely saying that anti-aliasing works in the applications to
> provide the information that _some_ anti-aliasing work on my computer.
>
> But not in my favourite window manager application, "fvwm", alas.
>
> Sorry for being unclear,

   oh! now I get it.

   both gnome and kde have their own support for anti-aliasing, I don't
know exactly how it works but it's not part of standard X fonts services
(i.e. only apps that use kde or gnome can use antialiased fonts, there
might be more limitations to that).

        erik

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