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The RENDER Extension: The Wait Hurtles On
augros writes: "Keith Packard, responsible for the X RENDER extension, is still working diligently on the X component that may one day make X a rival to other bleeding edge windowing systems (...ahem, *Quartz*). It's thanks to RENDER that 'xterm -fa arial' gives you a sleek anti-aliased terminal and k-jofol can offer you those funky-shaped skins. But how long will it be before X wields true-translucent windows? The cheap hacks (eterm) have lasted way too long. Read Packard's article; he goes over the details of what will need to be done. If you're interested in the current level of development check out Packard's screenshot. I tried his code myself and had to do tweak it a bit before the window even mapped. He claims it worked as true-transparency on his box, albeit painfully slow, however all I got was alpha-blended rectangles on an unrefreshing background." And watch this space for an XFree86-related interview, too :)
Cock Sparrer - Take 'em All
We worked our way up from east end pubs
To gigs and back stage passes
Ex-boxing champs, West end clubs
Americans in dark glasses
Driving ten grand cars, they drink in hotel bars
They're even making money in bed
They wouldn't be no loss, they aint worth a toss
It's about time they all dropped dead.
Chorus:
Take 'em all, take 'em all
Put 'em up against a wall and shoot 'em
Short and tall, watch 'em fall
Come on boys take 'em all
Well tough shit boys, it aint our fault
Your record didn't make it
We made you dance, you had your chance
But you didn't take it
Well, I gotta go make another deal
Sign another group for the company
I don't suppose we'll ever meet again
You'd better get back to the factory.
Chorus
Take 'em all, watch 'em fall (x4)
Chorus (Repeat...)
Does anyone know how to turn antialiasing on? I don't use KDE or Gnome, just straight blackbox. But I'd love to have emacs21, Mozilla, rxvt, etc. use antialiased fonts. Do I need to add something to .Xresources for this?
Kick ass, Timothy. Osnews.com has been the best place for interviews but I always preferred slashdot interviews.
Isn't it the SHAPE extension that allows Kjofol to do funky shaped skins? Isn't that what oclock and xeyes has been doing since at least 1992 or so?
"don't fall into the fallacy of believing that Perl can solve social problems. Maybe Perl 6 can, but that's a ways off"
Enlighten me as to what that 'screenshot' is supposed to prove. I see one window which appears to have only the window border and no innards with the window behind it showing. That's considered progress?
I'd like to hear more about "-fa", which is new to me. It appears that my xterm ("XFree86 4.0.2(151)") supports it, but it's not documented, even in the output from "xterm -h". Also, I seem to get a courier font regardless of the fontname I specify with "-fa".
BTW, what's k-jofol? I think there should be a link there.
what really pisses me off that Mozilla still does not support AA-Text (yeah, there is a gdk-xft patch but not for Galeon...)
interesting question: why is the AA-Text with Linux so blurry? Windows looks way better!
I can't believe that it is soooo hard to do a reasonable AA (no aa between 8-14px, only AA the "round" places and not simply blur the whole letter which looks awful)
any comments on this?