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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 18:11:32 -0800
student4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:


My X-server doesn't support RENDER (xpdyinfo said so) indeed.


This might be due to a bug in the Xft library:

	http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-list/2003-November/msg00022.html

although that's an old message, so perhaps that's not the cause.
It might also be that the claim that Xft "falls back correctly to other means of drawing anti-aliased text" isn't always true, and that it's *not* correctly drawing anti-aliased text in that case. 


As temprary solution I rebuilt ehtereal with gtk2 feature disabled. Looks ugly but
works!
That means "rebuilt Ethereal to use GTK+ 1.2[.x]", and 1.2[.x] doesn't know about RENDER or anti-aliasing.
This is probably a problem either in GTK+ or Xft, so that's probably where it'd have to be fixed.