[rescue] Sun Kit Needed for EE Student Here

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Fri, 05 May 2006 @ 03:33 -0400, der Mouse said:

> > One thing I have found lately is that the quality of the fonts when
> > KDE is running is making it hard for me to go back to vanilla X
> > window managers, because they don't have support for that.
> 
> What window manager you're using really has nothing to do with the
> fonts (other) applications choose to use.

I didn't say they did.

Read again: "because they don't have support for that."

Running a vanilla window manager means you don't have a full desktop
environment, which these days usually includes code to improve font and widget
rendering.

> Unless, I suppose, the KDE window manager has some private protocol it
> speaks with applications that has some bearing on fonts, which I
> suppose is possible but would be truly bizarre.

No, it is the other parts that come with it that provide support for quality
font and widget rendering.


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