RE: [Fwd: Re: Anti-aliasing fonts in OpenOffice & vncserver]

2004-02-25 Thread James Weatherall
Mike, Many of graphics drivers for higher-spec cards seem to be optimised for 32-bit data transfers, so if you select a 32bpp (24 bit colour) mode then the card may actually be faster than in 16-bit mode. There are also issues to do with colour translation that affect things. VNC Viewer 4 should

Re: [Fwd: Re: Anti-aliasing fonts in OpenOffice & vncserver]

2004-02-24 Thread Mike Fedyk
Mike Fedyk wrote: Mike Fedyk wrote: Tim Waugh wrote: The fontconfig library does client-side text rendering. Thanks. I looked it up and it looks like it's freetype that does the rendering. There's a new package in Debian Unstable and the changelog mentions freetype changes. I'm downloading

Re: Anti-aliasing fonts in OpenOffice & vncserver

2004-02-19 Thread Jan Suchy
Mike Fedyk wrote: Jan Suchy wrote: I believe you can't get anti-aliased fonts with vncserver because it doesn't support OpenGL. You'll probably get an error message similar to this one: Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":3.0" when you try to start an application which normally has anti-a

Re: Anti-aliasing fonts in OpenOffice & vncserver

2004-02-18 Thread Mike Fedyk
Jan Suchy wrote: I believe you can't get anti-aliased fonts with vncserver because it doesn't support OpenGL. You'll probably get an error message similar to this one: Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":3.0" when you try to start an application which normally has anti-aliased fonts. AFAIK

Re: Anti-aliasing fonts in OpenOffice & vncserver

2004-02-18 Thread Jan Suchy
Mike Fedyk wrote: Mike Fedyk wrote: Anyway, if I point OpenOffice to an Xfree86 Xserver, I get anti-aliased fonts, but not with the vncserver as the Xserver. They're seperate machines, so I'm hoping there is some package I forgot to install, or some config option that needs to be set so I can

Re: Anti-aliasing fonts in OpenOffice & vncserver

2004-02-17 Thread Mike Fedyk
Mike Fedyk wrote: Anyway, if I point OpenOffice to an Xfree86 Xserver, I get anti-aliased fonts, but not with the vncserver as the Xserver. They're seperate machines, so I'm hoping there is some package I forgot to install, or some config option that needs to be set so I can have anti-aliased f

Anti-aliasing fonts in OpenOffice & vncserver

2004-02-17 Thread Mike Fedyk
Hi, I'm sorry if this is a FAQ, but maybe I'm doing something a little different. I'm setting up what I call a "Linux Desktop Server". It uses a similar idea to Citrix and MS Terminal server, but with VNC instead. Anyway, if I point OpenOffice to an Xfree86 Xserver, I get anti-aliased fonts,