Antialiased fonts for aMSN

Introduction
aMSN is a nice chat program, using the MSN Messenger protocol. It has many interesting features, check out the official webpage for details. It is written in and.

However, the latest aMSN version available in portage does not offer the ability to display antialiased fonts. Then, for most users, the aMSN appearence can look very ugly.

In fact, this feature is provided by the TK widget set. Using tk/tcl versions > 8.5 will enable antialiasing.

Unmask packages
First, you'll have to unmask the required packages by adding these lines to the

emerge the tookits and application
Check that the truetype use flag is enabled for tcl with this command:

If not, execute this as root:

Finally, install everything:

That's it! Just execute aMSN and adjust the font preferences to use an antialiased one.

Additionnal packages
To get more skin for aMSN you can install this package:

aMSN complains about TkCximage
Be sure to emerge at least aMSN version 0.97.2-r1. Add it to your if necessary.

TLS cannot be found
If you did install the TLS module, but aMSN is not able to find it, do the following:
 * 1) Locate where is installed the TLS module should return something like this
 * 2) Open the aMSN preferences, click on the "Advanced" tab, in the "Search in advanced preferences" field, type
 * 3) Enter the path you previously retrieved (in this example ) and save
 * 4) Restart aMSN

If the TLS module still cannot be found:
 * 1) Quit aMSN if necessary
 * 2) Edit the pkgIndex.tcl file from the TLS module (in this example )
 * 3) As root, modify  by
 * 4) Save the file
 * 5) Execute aMSN

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