[openbox] font problem wiith openbox 2.2.3

Ava Arachne Jarvis ajar at katanalynx.dyndns.org
Sat Jan 11 10:28:17 EST 2003


[Thomas Piechocki - Sat, 11 Jan 2003 09:08:52 AM CST]
> Am Samstag, 11. Januar 2003 15:12 schrieb Ava Arachne Jarvis:
> 
> > If you don't have libxft2-dev installed, you won't get Xft2 compiled in.
> > You should also have the freetype development libraries
> > (libfreetype6-dev and also libttf-dev for the slight autoconf bug in
> > 2.2.3).  For running the thing, you want to install both libxft2 and
> > fontconfig (which has the actual Xft2 configuration file
> > /etc/fonts/fonts.conf).
> >
> > configure will tell you if finding Xft failed.
> 
> Thank you very much for your time and help. 
> All packages with the exception of libxft2 had been already installed. I 
> installed it now and recompiled openbox, but at the result nothing changed. 
> This comes from configure:
> 
> [...]
> checking whether to build support for the Xft extension... version 1
> checking for XftFontOpenXlfd in -lXft... yes
> checking for X11/Xft/Xft.h for Xft1... yes
> [...]
> 
> Does 'version 1' mean that this isn't for Xft2? 

Indeed.  Do you have libxft2-dev?  Because you can't have that installed
without libxft2, and you didn't have libxft2 before.


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