Re: [gentoo-dev] AA and KDE in gentoo - still not solved - anyone uses AA here?

["Chad M. Huneycutt" <chad.huneycutt@acm.org>]

I am seeing this same behavior.  I currently have QT_XFT=1 in my 
.bash_profile, .xinitrc, and /etc/env.d/90qt.  I am getting ready to try 
/etc/env.d/90kde21.  As Viktor mentions, if I open an konsole and type 
"echo $QT_XFT", it says that it is set to 1.  And, sure enough, if I 
then run konqueror, it has the AA fonts.  If I use the icon on the 
panel, however, the fonts are not AA.  I think this points pretty surely 
to the fact that KDE subprocesses are not getting the right environment.

Maybe modifying 90kde21 will fix the problem.

Chad

P.S.  This is my first post, so here is my obligatory compliment: The 
distribution is really shaping up.  Great work, guys!


Viktor Lakics wrote:

>Dear All,
>
>DOes anyone uses AA outhere in kde?
>
>I tried this trick (putting QT_XFT=1 to ~/.xinitrc) to make all my KDE to be
>AA-ed, without success. I did not even have .xinitrc in ~, ( /root - right now
>I set up everything as root and worry about permissions for users later), so I
>created it, but it did not help at all. (I have initdefault 4 set in inittab,
>and it seems that it works without .xinitrc)
>
>Then I tried to put QT_XFT=1 to the startkde script in various places -
>nothing happened. I even tried to shutdown kdm to console mode, and log in
>again to a normal konsole, set QT_XFT=1, export QT_XFT, and then start kdm -
>no dice.
>
>But once I am already in KDE, fire up a konsole window and set QT_XFT=1, AA
>works, as long as I start the apps from THAT VERY SAME konsole. The rest of
>the KDE is still not AA-ed though...(The checkbox in kcontrol -look&feel -
>style - use AA is switched on, of course)
>
>To make it even more confusing, there is a single program (kppp) which is
>AA-ed (after setting the GUI AA option on) even if I do not start it from a
>konsole where I previously set QT_XFT=1...
>
>I am really confused now... Why on earth the GUI control for AA only works on
>kppp, but not for the rest?! How can I let KDE know that I want AA
>everywhere?
>