Re: gdkxft (or, take two on AA text for GTK 1.2.X).

[Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu>]

On 02 Sep 2001 07:42:18 -0700, Jim Gettys wrote:
> Anyone play with this?  Seems to work without requiring source changes to
> GTK.  AA text on the iPAQ beats the old stuff hands down, as you tend
> to be looking at the screen from a smaller distance than usual, and
> it is an LCD.
> 
> See:
> http://philrsss.anu.edu.au/~josh/gdkxft/
> http://philrsss.anu.edu.au/~josh/gdkxft/README
> 
> Or am I better off playing with the patches that are floating around?

It seems to work more smoothly than the patches, in general. Especially
nice is that it doesn't not require recompilation.

I have shots of it in action at:

http://www.stanford.edu/~snickell/aa_shots/

It took me about ten minutes to setup...

-Seth