[openbox] RedHat 8.0

John Eckerdal john at hl.lu.se
Tue Oct 29 11:57:57 EST 2002


On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Scott Moynes wrote:

> * John Eckerdal (john at hl.lu.se) wrote:
> > A CVS version compiled on RH 8.0 some days ago worked fine here.
> > 
> > The problem is that you have to manually edit the Makefiles after
> > configure has created them - otherwise Xft support is missing.
> > Other than that there are no bugs, except maybe that menu bug that
> > someone mentioned awhile ago.
> > 
> 
> I've had contrary reports. I believe Redhat has shipped an unreleased
> version of Xfree that uses Xft2, and this has broken the drop shadow
> fonts.

Yep. RH ships Xft2.

And dropshadows do not work. It compiles OK though so it's probably
something different with Xft2.

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