[kde-solaris] How to get AA fonts on Solaris without native XRender ...

[Tobias Oetiker]

Today Joseph Mesterhazy wrote:

> I was able to get this working, however I had to use fontconfig-2.1.92 because
> the older release segfaulted. I do have a couple questions/comments:
>
> The anti-aliasing is inconsistant. If you right-click on the desktop, and the
> popup menu comes up, the fonts are AA. However once you mouse-over a menu
> item, they go back to being non-AA, except for the menu item that is
> highlighted. I also notice a lot of flickering/redraw.
>
> Another strange thing, the half of the icons in the konqueror toolbar
> disappear when AA fonts are enabled. If I disable them (in .qtrc) the icons
> re-appear.
>
> Is this 'normal' behavior from being bleeding edge, or do I have a bad build
> of KDE? I am also seeing weird things like form inputs not being displayed in
> konqueror and the dashed-multi-selection box not appearing when selecting
> icons on the desktop.

The menu rendering issue is a Qt problem I have reported it ...

I have the following in my local.conf

 <!-- KDE UI Font is not to be antialiased -->
 <match target="font" >
  <test qual="any" name="family">
   <string>Andale Sans Ui</string>
  </test>
  <edit mode="assign" name="antialias" >
   <bool>false</bool>
  </edit>
 </match>

note that the sun fonts have to be uncompressed to work with xft.

cheers
tobi
>
> (Solaris9/GCC 2.95.3/KDE 3.1.1)
>
> Joe
>
> On Friday 07 February 2003 04:57 am, Devendra Deshpande wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I managed to get AA fonts working with Qt (I used qt-copy from KDE cvs,
> > but I suppose Qt-3.1.1 will also work).
> >
> > Here's what you need to do if you want Anti-aliased fonts, but with the
> > standard Sun Xserver (my configuration: Solaris 2.7, Ultra10, Gcc-3.1,
> > binutils).
> >
> > Get Freetype2 (http://www.freetype.org)
> > Get Xft2 (http://www.fontconfig.org)
> >
> > You will need to compile XRender, fontconfig and Xft (compile and
> > install Freetype first). Make sure the PREFIX/bin of freetype/fcpackage
> > is in path. Note that xrender will want to install stuff in system
> > directories, so you should be root while installing XRender.
> >
> > Now config Qt with -xft -xrender. Check qapplication_x11.cpp in
> > src/kernel, it may have:
> >
> > bool   qt_use_xrender  = FALSE;
> >
> > change it to TRUE (although the server does not have XRender extension,
> > Xft can work with core protocol, albeit a bit slower).
> >
> > Compile/install Qt.
> >
> > Get a  bunch of decent fonts (http://www.fontconfig.org has microsoft
> > webfonts, get them and install them [1]). BTW there are a bunch of
> > TrueType fonts in /usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts too.
> >
> > Run fc-cache (from fontconfig's bin) as root for all the font
> > directories, including the /usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/* ...
> >
> > Make sure ~/.qt/qtrc has:
> >
> > enableXft=true
> > useXft=true
> >
> > Alternatively, you may change that from Control Center.
> >
> > Try running Qt/KDE applications :-)
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Devendra
> >
> > [1] Check http://trolls.troll.no/lars/fonts/qt-fonts-HOWTO.html, it has
> >     excellent information about finding fonts, configuring them and so
> >     on. Of particular interest is the bit about cabextract and
> >     ttmkfontdir (not on my solaris box). I used ttmkfdir from a Linux
> >     box on the network to process my font directories.
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