[gentoo-dev] XFree 4.3.0 and XftConfig

[gentoo-dev] XFree 4.3.0 and XftConfig

[Tomas Styblo]

I think that the /etc/X11/XftConfig configuration file is
completely ignored by XFree version 4.3.0 and above.

According to the documentation on www.xfree.org the Xft library
shipped with this version of XFree uses fontconfig. Fontconfig
is configured in the /etc/fonts/fonts.conf file.

My changes to XftConfig had no effect. Only changes to fonts.conf
are effective. Can anyone confirm that ?

In case the XftConfig file is not used for anything anymore then
the XFree ebuild should be modified to install the file as
XftConfig.obsolete or something like that. Existence of the file
is very confusing to the user who is trying to configure fonts.

I am going to report this problem to the maintainers of the
XFree ebuild in case no one points out something I missed.

Thanks.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] XFree 4.3.0 and XftConfig

[FRLinux]

Actually, i installed manually vera fonts on my system (4.3.0-r2) and
copied as instructed the local.conf from the package to /etc/fonts, ran
fc-cache and it worked. 

It has got nothing to do with xftconfig which is my second point, xft
package is *incompatible* with xfree 4.3.0-r2 (as mentionned in the
ebuild) and if you upgraded from 4.2.1 (as i did), it doesn't uninstall
it (tried that on 2 gentoo 1.4rc3 from 4.2.1 to 4.3.0-r2) and i had to :
emerge unmerge xft (which contains xft-config)

Steph

On Thu, 2003-05-08 at 22:21, Tomas Styblo wrote:
> My changes to XftConfig had no effect. Only changes to fonts.conf
> are effective. Can anyone confirm that ?



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[gentoo-dev] Re: XFree 4.3.0 and XftConfig

[Tomas Styblo]

* FRLinux <frlinux@frlinux.net> [Fri, 09 May 2003]:
> Actually, i installed manually vera fonts on my system
> (4.3.0-r2) and copied as instructed the local.conf from the
> package to /etc/fonts, ran fc-cache and it worked. 

Right, that's how I suppose it should work.

> It has got nothing to do with xftconfig which is my second
> point, xft package is *incompatible* with xfree 4.3.0-r2 (as
> mentionned in the ebuild) and if you upgraded from 4.2.1 (as i
> did), it doesn't uninstall it (tried that on 2 gentoo 1.4rc3
> from 4.2.1 to 4.3.0-r2) and i had to : emerge unmerge xft (which
> contains xft-config)

But I am not talking about the xft package. I've never installed it. 

The problem is that XFree ebuild installs the XftConfig file
which is no longer used by the Xft library shipped with XFree.

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