Re: Re: XFt on Solaris

Jim Gettys <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.xfree86.render
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Mozilla .9.9 OOB doesn't use Render, and is lame...

Chris Blizzard has a good version that does use Xft.  See:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/experimental/xft/Red_Hat_7x_RPMS/0.9.9/RPMS/i386/

Several caveats:
1) you want a version of freetype that does truetype hinting...
2) you have to define the subpixel order in the Xft config files.

Once that is done, you get georgeous results.

See: http://zap.crl.dec.com.
				- Jim

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Jim Gettys
Cambridge Research Laboratory
Compaq Computer Corporation
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