Change the font antialiasing threshold in 10.2

Sep 03, '02 09:43:59AM

Contributed by: Arkham

If you own a low-end machine, you may miss the ability to completely disable anti-aliasing in Mac OS X 10.2 - Tinker Tool does not work any more for this task. The General pref pane does not permit setting the AntiAliasing Threshold higher than 12, in order to keep menu items smoothed. But the Terminal does:

defaults write  .GlobalPreferences AppleAntiAliasingThreshold 16
You can replace 16 by the value you need. It you set this to an astronomical value (say 128), you effectively disable anti-aliasing. The speed gain is less palpable under 10.2 than it was before, and the menus are horrible, but, hey, it works and it can be useful for some of us on "slow end" hardware.

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