[openbox] RedHat 8.0

Scott Moynes smoynes at nexus.carleton.ca
Tue Oct 29 15:11:26 EST 2002


* Alexander Volovics (awol at home.nl) wrote:
> It would be very nice if the developers could look into adding
> Xft2/fontconfig support for openbox.
> Xft2/fontconfig makes the handling of freetype fonts so much more
> elegant and easy under Linux. It is going to be the future anyway.

Except it hasn't been part of a proper release from Xfree86. The API
is still changing.
 
> You can download and install the necessary xft/fontconfig libs under your
> own distribution by downloading fcpackage.2_0.tar.gz from fontconfig.org.

And it doesn't compile on my system, and I'm not going to jump through
hoops when so few systems have it installed. If someone comes up with
a proper patch that works, I'll apply it, but I don't have the
inclination to try to fix more Redhatisms.

-- 
Scott Moynes http://www.icculus.org/openbox/
"Computer science is as much about computers
as astronomy is about telescopes." -- Dijkstra
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