Fonts on Windowmaker/Afterstep systems are not antialiased #10

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bonkmaykr · 2024-10-03T19:19:22-04:00

bonkmaykr commented

2024-10-03 19:19:22 -04:00

This seems to be an issue with Swing.
Forcing AA enabled in the code does not appear to help:

// force antialiasing on Linux systems where support is disabled
// primarily intended for eccentric Linux setups i.e. Afterstep
		if (Main.windows == false) {
			System.setProperty("awt.useSystemAAFontSettings","on");
			System.setProperty("swing.aatext","true");
		}

This is unlikely to be a Windowmaker limitation as it should render programs the same as any other X window manager, with the actual rendering portion being handled by the X11 client-server. Though a misconfiguration in Windowmaker could be a cause. It's not exactly clear what.

Our best bet for now is to simply leave this in the FAQ until we have a workaround.

This seems to be an issue with Swing. Forcing AA enabled in the code does not appear to help: ``` // force antialiasing on Linux systems where support is disabled // primarily intended for eccentric Linux setups i.e. Afterstep if (Main.windows == false) { System.setProperty("awt.useSystemAAFontSettings","on"); System.setProperty("swing.aatext","true"); } ``` This is unlikely to be a Windowmaker limitation as it should render programs the same as any other X window manager, with the actual rendering portion being handled by the X11 client-server. Though a [misconfiguration in Windowmaker](https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Window_Maker#Cannot_disable_smooth_fonts) could be a cause. It's not exactly clear what. Our best bet for now is to simply leave this in the FAQ until we have a workaround.

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labels 2024-10-03 19:19:38 -04:00

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