I believe to have anti-aliasing you need to have XFree installed with
the render extensions which was a big part of 4.x.x. I believe. 
On 10 Jun 2001 10:05:38 -0400, Jason Pratt wrote:
> On 10 Jun 2001 09:30:07 -0400, Smitty wrote:
> 
> So I screwed the pooch on that one huh :)  I'm running Mandrake 8 with
> KDE as my primary desktop environment. I have KDE anti-aliasing the
> icons etc. Is there a way to get anti-aliasing after I've installed my
> distro?  I hope I don't have to reinstall Mandrake again :(
> 
> Thanks... Smitty...
> 
> Jason
> 
> 
> > Yes it is added, but you have to specify anti-aliasing when you set it
> > up.  
> > Smitty
> > 
> > Jason Pratt wrote:
> > > 
> > > Quick question... wasn't anti-aliasing supposed to be added into XFree
> > > 4.x.x?  I know that with KDE I can have anti-aliasing on the icons etc.
> > > but I noticed that with large text I still receive the jaggies on the
> > > text.  Just curious...
> > > 
> > > Jason
> 
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