Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 13:31:12 +1100 From: David Dawes <dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> To: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, Cejka Rudolf <cejkar@dcse.fee.vutbr.cz> Cc: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ELFoized xtt-SVGA-1.0 & TrueType fonts => HANG Message-ID: <19981105133112.I15681@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199811041815.CAA01590@spinner.netplex.com.au>; from Peter Wemm on Thu, Nov 05, 1998 at 02:15:19AM %2B0800 References: <199811041751.SAA22212@kazi.dcse.fee.vutbr.cz> <199811041815.CAA01590@spinner.netplex.com.au>
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On Thu, Nov 05, 1998 at 02:15:19AM +0800, Peter Wemm wrote: >Cejka Rudolf wrote: >> >> > I found Xtt to be extremely flakey and astonishingly complicated. >> > >> > Meanwhile, these patches for X11 are pretty simple and work >> > great: http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/jec/programs/xfsft/ >> >> So somebody can make official port xfsft... > >I use the freetype (ft) libs built directly into the server. Ariel on X11 >is disturbing at first. :-) I had a lot of trouble with xfstt, but that >was around the same that a change to the socket system disturbed X11 in >general. xfstt and xfsft are different. The latter uses the FreeType library and the former doesn't. There is a summary of the options at http://www.xfree86.org/FAQ#TTF. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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