How is antialiasing of menu text enabled in R5E50?

A google search turned up this:

QT_XFT=1
export QT_XFT

...but it doesn't work.

Thanks!

Can at least someone confirm that menu text was antialiased before R5E50 and is now jaggy?

Yeah, my menu fonts in Blootube look awful. I can't find a place to verify that it's using Vera like it should be...

Okay, very glad it wasn't just me that messed something up.

I actually also tried making a ~/.fonts.conf as per http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~justin/ha ... fonts.html which is supposed to be the way to enable antialiasing of fonts with xorg, but still blocky in the menu.

This must be related to the switchover to xorg in E50. Does mythfrontend have to be modified to respect xorg's antialiasing settings?

Interesting that OSD is correctly antialiased, but it looks like pretty much everything else is not. Does the OSD use a different method to draw text?

Also, both OpenGL and qt drawing settings give jaggy text. Forcing antialiasing in my nvidia-settings has no effect.

Edit: I notice fluxbox is correctly antialiasing and normal programs like nvidia-settings are nicely antialiased.

It might be your dpi= setting in your xorg.conf. I had to set mine to dpi = 100x100 and it cleared right up..

Just a thought though..

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I already have

Option "DPI" "100 x 100"

in Section "Monitor" in xorg.conf. It was there by default.

I also have jagged text on R5E50. With my LCD HDTV it is really obvious in the menu text on Blootube. I also tried other themes and no joy there either. On my box the OSD menu fonts are not anti-aliased as well. Aa1979, I'm guessing if you look really close or if you increase your OSD text size you will see that it is jagged as well. I didn't notice it on the OSD text until I got up close to the TV and looked for it. I'm betting it's more obvious on my TV being that it's LCD. Now that I've found it in the OSD it drives me nuts there too!

I spent a couple hours working on it last night (before I found this thread) and have basically tried all the things listed here including messing around with my DPI settings in xorg.conf.

For anyone who wants to be able to use Option "DPI" or Option "DisplaySize" or Option "UseEdidDpi" you will need to edit /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc and remove remove -dpi 100 from the line exec /usr/bin/X11/X -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp otherwise it will override any settings in your xorg.conf file.

Check this thread for more details: http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic. ... =fonts+dpi

Playing with DPI settings did change the font sizes (as it should) but didn't do anything as far as anti-aliasing, everything still looks all jagged.

I'm fresh out of ideas but I hope someone can figure this out. Perhaps the DPI and Display sizes are a piece of the puzzle so I thought I throw that info out there and maybe it can help someone else.

Martian

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I think you all mean R5E50, not E30: http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=13537

That will teach me to copy and paste. Post edited.

Martian

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I would like to add my voice to those who aren't getting AA'd fonts in R5E50 (I did in all previous versions). I've tried messing around with the fonts in my xorg.conf (changing their order changes precidence), but no dice. I can't recall, but did previous versions of Knoppmyth (pre-Xorg) use XFS?

Whoops, why on earth did I write E30? Oh well, edited. Sorry!

Hey all,

I fixed the non-AA fonts problem. You need to specify Xft settings in your /home/mythtv/.qt/qtrc file, as so (an excerpt from my ~/.qt/qtrc file):



You will need to insert the two Xft lines. I changed the font as well, that is up to you. That's all there is to it, enjoy!

Cool - thanks!

Thank you Spektr!!! This worked great.

For some reason antialiasing didn't work with the Helvetica font. I then changed to Sans Serif and the text looks beautiful.

I've now changed the font to Freetype Mono as that's what I use for everything else in Myth (it's seems to be the default).

Thanks again Spektr,

Martian

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Vizio 37" LCD HDTV (1080p)