Re: [Fink-users] Anti-aliased Freetype

[Benjamin R. <ra...@be...>]

Nathan Gray wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm typing this in knode, which is currently the best newsreader I know of
> for OS X. :-)  Unfortunately, the fonts are icky and aliased because Fink's
> KDE programs link against the system's libfreetype, which doesn't have
> anti-aliasing enabled.  (I won't go into the richly-layered irony of Apple
> shipping a hobbled font library because of Apple's patents...)  Being an
> enterprising hacker, I would like to get AA working for my Fink software. 
> I've installed the freetype2-hinting packages but this didn't seem to do
> anything.  I've tried overwriting /usr/X11R6/lib/libfreetype* with
> AA-enabled versions but that left X11 broken.  Can anybody recommend a
> solution?

The system freetype does AA just fine.

Your ~/.qt directory isn't owned by root, by any chance, is it?  If it 
is, try changing it to you and restarting KDE and it should be fine.

I never have figured out what causes this, but something's messing with 
the user's home directory (running something qt-ish) at install time 
that's confusing things.