[geeks] X: widget rendering without KDE or GNOME, example...

Caleb Shay caleb at webninja.com
Sat May 6 19:14:10 CDT 2006


On 5/6/06, Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com> wrote:
> Here are two screenshots of Open Office running on vanilla fvwm, and again
> while running KDE. This is just to give an example of how some apps render
> poorly when not running under KDE or Gnome.
>
> Font scaling, widgets, and coloring are all different without KDE
> loaded.

export GDK_USE_XFT=1

Poof, apps that use GTK+/GDK get antialiasing back. :)

Cheers,

Caleb



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