The latest ebuild of xfree (4.2.0-r12) stops anti-alias fonts in gnome2.
Works fine here. Screenshot ?
I have something similar happening here. anti-aliasing seems to work everytime I've just booted. logging out of gnome -> gdm shows me normal fonts
Checkout: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4313 Then try to run startx from console (make sure the env variable to enable AA is set), and see if that works.
starting gnome from console works fine. i tried the solution from bug#4313, but this doesn't help. want proof? see pic
Created attachment 2269 [details] no-aa here's the proof
starting from console gives me ugly fonts now too :( so it can't be an gdm thing nor has it anything to do with the bash thing.
Created attachment 2271 [details] very small letters this is the other extreme way it behaves. tiny, isn't it?
Well, it have always, and still work fine here and do so for a lot of other people. I am not trying to shove all the blame on you, but due to some part of the way/order you do things, it can be that a bug comes to light. Try to put "export GDK_USE_XFT=1" in your /etc/profile, and see if that helps. Maybe also in your /etc/X11/Sessions/Gnome ?
did you have a look at the screenshots? in the first one you can the gnome-terminal being opened. there's the proof that GDK_USE_XFT=1 is exported. it's by default in /etc/X11/Sessions/Gnome
I think this is some kind of generel xfree build problem. my emerge went just fine, but for example the symbolic link from /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 to /usr/lib/X11 wasn't there (altough it appeard in the logs that it has been done). so what are we actually looking for?
1) GDK_USE_XFT must be set *before* gnome/gtk+ apps start. 2) If you really need to use "declare", and quote everything, try using: declare -xi GDK_USE_XFT="1" 3) Must confess, I didnt look at /etc/X11/Sessions/Gnome yet :/ As for that link, mine is in tackt ... *sigh*.
GDK_USE_XFT is already set when I login to the text console. and then it's exported a second time in /etc/X11/Sessions/Gnome. what do you meen by the declare thing? I don't understand it. different question: what filesystem are you running gentoo on (you can call me stupid now but i have some suspicion here related with some other stuff not going the way it should go)?
Huh? I did not call you stupid. Using ext3.
never said you were calling me stupid :) this i just some german saying which means something like "the following thing I'm saying might sound so strange to you that you might get the impression i'm stupid". so this was no offend, ok? ext3, hm - that's not what I expected. running gentoo-kernel? or vanilla?
Sorry, went to bed. Running custom with preemptive and AC patch (rmap and works). What FS you running ? Any reason for the asking of my FS type ? Can you try something like: # GDK_USE_XFT=1 startx from console (with xdm/gdm/whatever stopped) ?
I'm running ext3 aswell. I think I know now what was causing aa not to work. have a look at: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=4825 I also edited my Xftconfig files and from this point on aa was going crazy. now, fresh install, I didn't alter a single file, aa works just fine.
aa seems to be broken again! but it's not related to gdm as logging in from console breaks aa. > declare -xi GDK_USE_XFT="1" tried this. doesn't help > GDK_USE_XFT=1 startx tried this aswell - doesn't help either it worked before on pure gnome install. now I emerged evolution, xmms and gkrellm and it seems to break. but this could be just by chance
why are following lines in r12 ebuild commented out? wouldn't this prevent aa to work? # Apply Xft quality patch from http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~dchest/xfthack/ # cd ${S}/lib/Xft # cat ${FILESDIR}/${PVR}/xft-quality.diff | patch -p1 || die
i unmerge r12, emerged r9 -> didn't help. unmerged evolution and all it dependencies -> didn't help unmerged xscreensaver and all it dependencies -> didn't help do you run any gnome-1.4 stuff on your box? I removed everything i had here. is there a way to check what Xft is doing?
just thought i should maybe post my system conf here so people might actually see what's different to theirs: amd athlon 900 ext3 fs 384MB ram (passed memtest86) gentoo 1.3b (gcc 3.1) make.conf flags: USE="-apm -arts -kde -qt -qtmt esd dvd" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=i686 -O3 -pipe" CXXFLAGS="-march=i686 -O3 -pipe" gnome2, galeon, evolution, zapping, xmms, gkrellm installed latest Xfree-4.2.0-r12 installed
Yep. Evo, Mozilla, multi-gnome-terminal, gkrellm, xmms, etc. All those do not have AA, but the gtk2 stuff is fine. BTW, I use all the X config files as installed from -r12 ... no changes to XftConfig as some guys on the forums propose. Above just snippets out of private mail between me and Andreas.
Just an thought ... you dont have gnome-core installed (should not) ?
gnome-core-1.4.1 is NOT installed
okay, AA in Gnome 2 works for me, both using startx, and using GDM xfree 4.2.0-r12 pretty much a week old "all up to date" gnome2 / gtk+ packages (fun ; ) athlon tbird, gcc 3.1 -O2 compile options. Ati Rage IIc+ with Xfree 4.1 ati drivers binary included (bug in 4.2 with some mach 64 chipsets and clock timings) Theese fontpaths in XF86Config FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/" FontPath "/usr/local/share/fonts/XPTrueType/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype/" Section "Module" Load "extmod" Load "xie" Load "pex5" Load "glx" Load "dri" Load "dbe" Load "record" Load "xtrap" Load "speedo" Load "type1" Load "freetype" EndSection and XftConfig : dir "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1" # TTF fonts dir "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype" dir "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType" dir "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF" # User installed fonts dir "/opt/ttfonts" # URW fonts dir "/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1" # Localized Truetype fonts dir "/usr/share/fonts/truetype" dir "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/western" dir "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/big5" dir "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/gb2312" dir "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/japanese" dir "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/korean" dir "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/armenian" dir "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives" dir "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/cyrillic" dir "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/viet" dir "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/ethiopic" dir "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/georgian" dir "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/arabic" dir "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/hebrew" dir "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/unicode" # AbiSuite comes with URW fonts as well dir "/usr/share/AbiSuite/fonts" Also: check your /etc/pango.pangox.aliases run / update gnome-font-install .... (emerge libgnomeprint )
I've just rebuild my system from scratch with -O2 options - didn't help much. gnome and aa works just in 1 out of about 5 times. I think, this is a gnome2 package bug. do you guys have the latest packages installed? what should my /etc/pango/pangox.aliases look like? the XF86Config and XftConfig files are the same here. could this bug have anything to do with this one http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5098. as gconf isn't really installed properly but emerge gnome goes on, some stuff might be broken. should I maybe do a "emerge -e gnome"? libgnomeprint is installed. with what options should i run / update gnome-font-install?
I'm pretty positive at the moment that this is NOT a xfree problem. aa works in mozilla, only the gtk2 stuff isn't aa. so it must be a gtk2 or gnome2 package issue
Created attachment 2378 [details] is this "some aa"? have a look at this screenshot. it looks sort of aa, but still gnome-terminal isn't aa. but this looks way bettern than the noaa screenshot submitted previously. what do you think?
tried xfree along with nvidiadrivers. aa won't work at all! so could this mean, it is a xfree bug?
xchat-1.9.2 just told me: "Using Xft for text rendering (good!)." well, so xft is working. hm, but why are the fonts so big? this looked different before. and why does the gnome-terminal font look really ugly? I'll submit a screenshot. please tell me what you think.
Created attachment 2488 [details] so what's going on here?
check your properties in your terminal. you need to tell it not to use the default font size. that should fix you ugly fonts in the terminal
Using the nvidia drivers over here, so once again do not look like the root of the problem (geforce2 mx400 btw) :(
I am guessing this is not resolved yet ? :(
I think this was more a freetype issue. just installed freetype 2.1.2 and aa just rocks!
Great. Guess we should consider unmasking that one then sometime soon.
