Window titles look like flyspeck on Solaris 9/SPARC

[Kai Grossjohann]

Mikael Magnusson <mangosoft at comhem.se> writes:

> On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Kai Grossjohann wrote:
>
>> Mikael Magnusson <mangosoft at comhem.se> writes:
>>
>>> We have some sort of solaris/sparc at school and i've run openbox
>>> successfully there after installing xft in my ~.
>>
>> Ah, Xft could be the problem.  But there is a file
>> /usr/openwin/include/Xft/Xft.h, so it could be that xft is part of
>> Solaris 9 already.
>
> Maybe an old version, try installing xft from source and link against 
> that.

That was it.  I used the version from blastwave.org and now I'm a
happy camper.

It was not trivial to compile against this verison, though.  More
details in another message.

Kai