[openbox] RedHat compile problems

Pat Martin pmartin at patm.net
Wed Feb 12 22:55:06 EST 2003


Thank you, that worked for everything it even speeded up loading when
openbox first starts. And xterm even seems speedier.

Thanks again.

Pat Martin


On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 01:26:21AM -0600, Ben Jansens wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 11:01:55PM -0800, Pat Martin wrote:
> > 
> > I have compiled openbox from source on a redhat 8 box and I am having some problems with it. It loads ok but it does  take awhile to load but that is a minor problem. When I switch to another style it freezes for about 15 seconds and then finally loads the style. And some of the styles don't seem to work, the coloring is fine but there are no fonts (as in letters or words) and the menu, titlebar and bar at the bottom are two or three times as tall as they should be. Am I missing libraries or just fonts and if anyone has a link on how to add fonts in RedHat 8 I would appreciate it. And any idea why it takes so long for the styles to change. I have compiled both stable and testing with the same results. I have compiled on Debian and had none of these problems.  
> > Great work with openbox it has become my defacto windowmanager.
> 
> Here's something I dug up:
> 
> Try to run the "locale" and "locale charmap" commands in an
> xterm. Most likely you'll see UTF-8 in the output. The X
> code is very slow when UTF-8 is used; this is not
> Openbox-specific - you can experience the same slowness
> when you start a GTK+ 1.x-based application (e.g., Sylpheed).
> 
> The underlying problem is difficult to solve - the Openbox
> code is fine (it uses the standard Xmb* functions), it is
> the X code which is slow.
> 
> However, as a workaround, if you don't need the full
> capabilities provided by the UTF-8 encoding, you can revert
> to the older 8-bit mode (iso8859-1, or something like this).
> This may be done by changing the LANG variable in
> /etc/sysconfig/i18n; change it from en_US.UTF-8 to just
> en_US (or do something similar if you use some other language).
> 
> ----
> 
> The missing fonts may just be that they don't support the language
> being displayed, or also because of the UTF-8 setting.
> 
> On a side note, I wouldn't mind hearing if Openbox3 (in cvs) suffers
> from these same problems in the same situation..
> 
> Ciao,
> Ben
> -- 
> I am damn unsatisfied to be killed in this way.
> 
> http://www.icculus.org/openbox/





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