redhat 9 style anti-aliasing?

[David Huang]

Clark, Anthony wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was wondering what sort of steps one would have to take to enable redhat 9 style pretty font rendering?
> 
> As far as I know, cygwin doesn't have any of the /usr/share/fonts or /etc/fonts style font management.  In fact, I couldn't even find an XF86Config, which is strange.
> 
> Any pointers on what I'd need to get this working?
Sounds like you need Xft 2, fontconfig, which are parts of XFree86 4.3.
See http://fontconfig.org/.
I've put some patches for Xft, fontconfig, freetype getting worked on XFree86 4.2
on http://cygnome2.sourceforge.net/test-patches/.

Hope helpful.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Anthony Clark
>