Re: XFT vs. Freetype?
"Rinaldi J. Montessi" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.unix |
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| Organization | Another Netscape Collabra Server User |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 14:07:45 GMT, [email protected] wrote: > I have compiled mozilla with either Freetype or XFT. > i.e. > ac_add_options --disable-xft > ac_add_options --enable-freetype2 > or disabling freetype and enabling xft2. > > Mozilla seems to be more stable with Freetype but has ugly > fonts on some pages while XFT2 the fonts look wonderful. > When Mozilla is compiled with XFT and I load a page like, > http://pricewatch.com, Mozilla immediately dies with no > warning. It does this on some other pages too. > > I am running XFree86 4.4.0 and higher. I've found that building an xft/gtk1 browser is a fairly good combination, but requires chopping out the if/fi test in configure that tells you it can't be done. XFT is supposed to require GTK2. No idea why. Rinaldi -- We may not return the affection of those who like us, but we always respect their good judgement.