Archive for "Apr 2009"

Fast Fluxbox Compositing – shadows, transparency, and fading

I’ve used fluxbox for awhile as my window manager, because I like having a very minimal desktop that stays out of my way. However, I do like some eye candy, and I finally figured out how to get compositing working with fluxbox.
All you have to do is run xcompmgr, the steps are explained here on [...]

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Facebook Connect support, woo

So this Facebook Connect thing. Everyone seems to be using it! I’ve been doing alot of work with it at my co-op job, so its about time I integrate it into my blog. Go ahead, click the connect button in the sidebar. All the cool kids are doing it.
Casey out.

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How to get nice, smooth, X11 fonts in your terminal and editors

Ok, so well all know that bitmap fonts are great, but sometimes its nice to have some smoothing and anti aliasing to make things easier on the eyes. How is this accomplished? By adding this to your ~/.Xdefaults file:
Xft.hinting: true
Xft.hintstyle: hintslight
Xft.antialias: true
Xft.rgba: none
Xft.dpi: 96
If your using an LCD you can set Xft.rgba to rgba to [...]

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