Trying to get the slimmest antiX possible, I've downloaded and played with the Ted word processor as alternative to Abiword.

Problem is the fonts in Ted are brutally ugly. After research, I think aliasing may be the problem. I'm really ignorant about this, but I *think* it's possible for aliasing to be the problem on only some apps (xwindows). I know KDE in Mepis has an anti-aliasing option, but I find nothing about that in antiX, and I'm not sure that it effects a word processor's on-screen font appearance when everything else looks just fine.

I've noticed this feature of Ted on other machines. Thanks to anyone for pointers on whether I'm even looking in the right direction.

I think fluxbox comes with anti-aliasing by default for the fluxbox menu. For apps using gtk1 and gtk2, you can set the font through the .gtkrc gtk2rc files. (I think that is what they are called, I'm on windoze at work).

This thread may be of some help.


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The thread you cite may be what I'm after. Will experiment and report back.

Edit w/ new info:

For those interested, it seems the issue is peculiar to Ted and not related to anti-aliasing. Apparently Ted comes in a GTK version that is"experimental" (not recommended by Debian), so what happens is that the repositories tend to contain the old version with the older display. No biggie. It still works...