[openbox] Dropshadows for fonts?

[Scott Moynes]

* John Eckerdal (john at hl.lu.se) wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Have been playing around with Openbox for awhile now and like it.
> It works like a charm (well, almost). I can't get drop shadows to
> work.
> I searched the source for any clues on how to enable these and I
> found the session.screenX.dropShadowFonts (and corresponding menu
> item). None of them make a difference (it can be enabled and disabled
> but there is no visible difference). Normal anti-alias fonts work.
> 
> Since the default Openbox compilation does not support Xft 2, I sort
> of hacked it. After I ./configure has completed config.h is modified so 
> that XFT is defined and then I added a two calls in the Makefile to
> xft-config.
> The net result is that aa-fonts work, drop-shadows do not work.
> 
> GCC is RH8.0 gcc-3.2
> libstdc++ is RH8.0 libstdc++-3.2
> Xft is RH8.0 Xft 2.0
> XFree86 is Rawhide XFree86-4.2.1
> 
> Either I have missed something trivial in the styles files (don't
> think so but I am not entirely sure), or dropshadows fonts do not
> work with Xft 2?
> 

I'd like to have any patches for XFT2 you have. Partly to debug
this, partly to look at, and partly because I am a nerd and like that
sort of thing. I suspect it might be due to XFT2, but who knows?
-- 
Scott Moynes http://www.icculus.org/openbox/
"Computer science is as much about computers
as astronomy is about telescopes." -- Dijkstra
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