Just a quick note... we took an initial look at Xft a while ago and our
research so far indicates it won't work with the minimum required Linux
x86 compilation environment we support. We're currently examining options.
On 8/16/2012 10:48 AM, Holger Kleinsorgen wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was tired of the old ugly bitmap XFonts that are used by VW on X11, so I
> imported a few C header files of Xft and fontconfig, combined some code with
> duct tape, fixed bugs with WD-40, and published it in the public repository.
>
> Load package "Xft-Integration", save & restart the image. Don't use an
> important image ;)
>
> Another package, "Xft-DesktopIntegration" tries to gather font information
> from the desktop configuration. GNOME and KDE only currently.
>
> Given the gazillion of possible combinations of libraries, desktop
> environments and configurations, it's difficult to predict on how many
> machines this actually works. If it doesn't, I would appreciate any
> feedback.
>
> Sneak preview:
>
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/21555916/smalltalk/Xft.png>
>
>
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