TrueType Fonts and Xft
 

Hi,

Do you have Xft installed? What is Xft eactly for? My Slax by default doesn't have it, and everything seems to be fine. But I've also read that GTK based apps all use Xft to render TrueType fonts (Slax is Qt/Kde based though). Hence my confusing and question. Please help.

From
Xft hack results in high quality anti-alias font rendering
http://www.linux.com/feed/21618

"Font Antialias first made its way to XFree through Qt/KDE only a year ago and GTK+/Gnome followed some time after. Even with the latest version of Freetype 2.08, which reportedly brings better quality, the result is still not up to par with the rendering quality found on some commercial OSes. David Chester has hacked through the Xft library and he achieved an incredibly good quality on antialias rendering under XFree86. With this 'hack,' at last, XFree can deliver similar aesthetic results with the MacOSX or Windows rendering engines."

The bottom line is, I want to know whether I should include Xft in my Slax. If it is only to make fonts looks better than antialias, I'd opt it out.

thanks

First, SLAX is not Slackware.
Second, SLAX as well as Slackware contain libXft for years now.
Third, that post you cite is more than 6 years old - what is it's relevance to your question?

I suggest you install libXft (used for X TrueType font rendering using FreeType).

Eric

> First, SLAX is not Slackware.

I know, but aren't you a bit too picky about it? I would say SLAX is Slackware, but not exactly Slackware.

> Second, SLAX as well as Slackware contain libXft for years now.

Ophs, Yeah, you're right. my bad -- Too new to SLAX/Slackware.

> Third, that post you cite is more than 6 years old - what is it's relevance to your question?

I want to know "What is Xft exactly for?". The quote is what I could found from google about Xft.

Hi,

Slax is not Slackware.

Ok, Ok, Slax is not Slackware,
and Xft is for GTK based apps to render TrueType fonts.