Ah, I thought I'd tried all the likely variants, but I still had the syntax
wrong (no colon after the shadow spec stuff).
It's gorgeous. Thanks very much for the lightening response.
-R.
Quoting Mikhael Goikhman <migo_at_homemail.com>:
> On 30 Dec 2002 19:15:04 +1100, Ross Hamilton wrote:
> >
> > Am I correct in assuming that the shadowed font feature doesn't
> > work with anti-aliased text rendered through xft?
> > If so, is there any likelyhood of getting the two to work together
> > in the future?
> > I'm using fvwm 2.5.4 on a Debian system with xfree 4.2.3 and a
> > fairly recent freetype2.
>
> Both features worked nicely together from the start. There were problems
> with MultiPixmap and shadowed text, but even this works well in cvs now.
>
> I suppose you use colorsets for defining fg, bg and fgsh of your text.
> Otherwise text shadow is not drawn.
>
> Try this:
>
> Colorset 1 bg gray30, fg gray80
> Style * Colorset 1
> Style * Font "Shadow=2:xft:Verdana:Medium:size=12:minspace=true"
>
> If you have any problems please post relevant configuration that uses
> colorsets and does not work for you (after running the daily snapshot).
>
> Regards,
> Mikhael.
>
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