Flash 8 - text in actionScript window is not anti-aliased

I just moved over to Flash 8 and the text in the actionscript
window is not anti-aliased like it is in 7. Is there a preference
setting somewhere that I haven't discovered yet?
thanks

I don't think so.

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Is there a tiling window manger with anti-aliased fonts?
Thanks.
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cinan wrote:your font configuration has nothing to do with window manager. Hope this helps you http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xor … figuration
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