[oclug]Fonts revisited

[Shad Young]

On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 20:24, smoynes at nexus.carleton.ca wrote:
> * Shad Young (shad.young at sympatico.ca) wrote:
> > I have no idea what Netscape/Mozilla/Galeon were built against (I am
> > not really sure how I would find out). NS(and moz which seem to be
> > sharing most parts) was a binary (3 actually) package in contrib.
> 
> Last time I checked, galeon does not (yet) used gtk2. Gtk2 uses XFT to
> give you smooth fonts. The binaries Netscape and Mozilla provide do
> not use XFT. (Again, last I checked.) You can compile mozilla to use
> XFT, but it is sort of a hassle to do so. If you don't want to compile
> it and your distribution doesn't provide support, you are pretty much
> out of luck.

I have grabbed all of the tarballs for XFT2, and related dependencies.
Compiling a test prog returns me a very useless error about "xmkmf being
broken... - ensure all X devel are installed" Which they are according
to MDK rpms, but there is no xmkfm installed on my system, an not more X
del pkgs..

Anybody have any ideas?

Shad
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