Why can't dmenu antialias?

[alphachi]

http://forums.freebsd.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=1073&stc=1&d=1291800820
Up is dmen. Down is xterm.
The text on dmenu can't antialias.
On the other place(xterm etc.), the font antialias is ok.
Thanks!:(

[Case]

Try to compile dmenu with and without XFT, may be it help.


cd /usr/ports/x11/dmenu
sudo make config

[Daisuke_Aramaki]

http://forums.freebsd.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=1073&stc=1&d=1291800820
Up is dmen. Down is xterm.
The text on dmenu can't antialias.
On the other place(xterm etc.), the font antialias is ok.
Thanks!:(

Not sure if the dmenu port in FreeBSD provides the xft option. However doing it by yourself should be very easy. dmeu-xft patch exists for quite sometime. Follow this link for the patch. Frankly though, if you use a nice font like montecarlo, terminus, or a member of the proggyfonts family, dmenu would look better. That way you need not even bother about antialiasing. But if you insist, here you go.

http://lists.suckless.org/dev/0911/2320.html