> I''ve compiled qt on Solaris 8 with Xft support, but I''m having the > same problem as detailed in this post: > > http://mail.fontconfig.org/pipermail/fontconfig/2003-August/000581.html > > As in that post, GTK2 apps use anti-aliased fonts correctly, while > QT apps do not. The qtconfig app shows that I have them enabled by > default, yet they simply are not used/rendered. Turning on and off > aliasing in qtconfig/kcontrol has no apparent effect. >Seeing the same effect here, except that I''m just running it through Xnest (which also doesn''t support RENDER). Xft should be able to render anti-aliased fonts even w/o the RENDER extension, so I think QT''s handling of it is wrong, unless they are trying to do something completely different.
"James F. Hranicky" <jfh@cise.ufl.edu> writes:> Does the fact that openwin on Solaris 8 doesn''t support the Xrender > extension have anything to do with it?Yup. When I looked at this over the summer, Qt doesn''t enable Xft support unless the display supports the RENDER extension; if I recall correctly, this is because it uses RENDER to draw the text itself, rather than getting Xft to do it. (I did try to fix this, and succeeded in getting KDE applications to draw a nicely anti-aliased crash dialog on a non-RENDER-capable display before giving up...) -- Adam Sampson <azz@us-lot.org> <http://offog.org/>
I''ve compiled qt on Solaris 8 with Xft support, but I''m having the same problem as detailed in this post: http://mail.fontconfig.org/pipermail/fontconfig/2003-August/000581.html As in that post, GTK2 apps use anti-aliased fonts correctly, while QT apps do not. The qtconfig app shows that I have them enabled by default, yet they simply are not used/rendered. Turning on and off aliasing in qtconfig/kcontrol has no apparent effect. Interestingly enough, when I log into a Mandrake 9.1 machine, remote login to the Solaris machine, and run KDE apps remotely, the fonts *are* anti-aliased properly, and I can turn on and off aliasing in kcontrol and see the difference. So, I know the Solaris apps are compiled correctly, it just seems there''s some unknown factor preventing the rendering of AA fonts in qt/kde on openwin. Does the fact that openwin on Solaris 8 doesn''t support the Xrender extension have anything to do with it? Any help would be greatly appreciated. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | Jim Hranicky, Senior SysAdmin UF/CISE Department | | E314D CSE Building Phone (352) 392-1499 | | jfh@cise.ufl.edu http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~jfh | ----------------------------------------------------------------------