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Re: Beyond twm



On Thu 19 Feb 2015 at 10:30:44 +0100, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 10:31:16AM -0900, Phillip Rulon wrote:
> > Yes, Ive had a look and see the switches.  So the simple thing is to dress
> > up the fonts and set up a pleasing background.  Perhaps a little work on
> > the logo and arrangement of the login widget.
> 
> I find the plain black background not that bad. But fonts definitively
> need more tuning (and too bad we can't use TrueType ones here).

Hm as far as I'm aware, the X server does support TrueType fonts.
It is linked with freetype:

murthe.3:.../scratch2/tmp/photos$ sudo ldd  /usr/X11R7/bin/X
/usr/X11R7/bin/X:
...
        -lfreetype.7 => /usr/X11R7/lib/libfreetype.so.7

-Olaf.
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___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert  -- The Doctor: No, 'eureka' is Greek for
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