Hi,
I have applied anti aliasing in system settings menu. Both options i.e. Enabled and System settings. It does not apply those settings for some reason.

Initially I had modified .bash_profile to have "exec /usr/bin/screen" which caused kdm to crash. I reverted back but had started X by doing a "sudo startx". I am not sure whether the permissions have messed up. Please let me know how to fix this.

Thanks.

Please check the permissions of files under ~/.kde4/. They should be owned by your user. Run the following to fix this:

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sudo chown -R $(id -un):$(id -gn) $(kde4-config --localprefix)

Tried that. Still doesn't work. Can I see some logs to know what is happening.

All output is usually sent to ~/.xsession-errors. The application of font anti-aliasing however is dependent upon fontconfig, so try removing ~/.fontconfig, and make sure ~/.fonts.conf is writable.

Solved! In the Configure option next to the combo it was saying Exclude range from 8.0 px to 12.0 px. Disabled it. Now everything is anti aliased. I wonder why this range was excluded as this is the normal range what the users set up.

Also why does setting "exec /usr/bin/screen" in .profiles or .bash_profile not start kde. It simply reverts back to kdm after login. Is this a bug?

This is because ~/.bashrc is sourced by all bash instances on startup. As such, when the interpreter for /usr/bin/startkde (which is /bin/sh, but your distro may have changed this) is invoked, ~/.bashrc is loaded and the process is fouled up.

You should be doing that in ~/.profile

Strangely after putting in .profile my office machine which has GDM has a problem loading gnome desktop same as the above problem I have with kde.

It appears in this case then, that using screen in combination with ~/.profile or ~/.bashrc is not possible...