Cairo rendering in Views only applies on bitmaps and thus only on views drawn by double-buffering.

To ensure Views uses Cairo rendering, set double-buffering to ’on’ in the IlvManager or IlvContainer holding the object to be drawn by Cairo.

Note: For some use cases, setting double-buffering does not force the use of Cairo rendering.

Views uses Cairo to draw geometric shapes, but not text. For drawing text, Views uses Xft.

To draw alpha-blended or anti-aliased text, see Text anti-aliasing and scalable fonts with Xft on X Windows.