Re: Help needed re xf2 with gnome2

[mike <mike redtux demon co uk>]

On Sat, 2002-08-24 at 03:41, Zenith Lau wrote:
> Hi friends,
> 
> 	I've also do the same thing as you in some previous time. As Xft2/fontconfig has go
> 	through a quite active development IMO, and as well as pango and freetype2. I suggest
> 	you to not just take the SRPM, but the source. The most updated info should be :
> 	* Xft2/fontconfig : http://keithp.com/fonts/pub/fcpackage.rc2.tar.gz
> 	* pango : ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.1/pango-1.1.1.tar.gz
> 	* freetype2 : http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3157
> 
> 	Please note that, pango 1.0.x doesn't not work with Xft2, you should get the new 
> 	pango-1.1.1 (recently released) or cvs version. Also one gdk share object (.so) should
> 	also recompile and link with new xft library. You can just recompile the GTK+.

Done all this

What I get is everything compiles but

modal dialogs are enormous and unusable and some dialogs (eg desktop
edit) just crash

It seems to be a problem somewhere with pango/gtk

any tips would be appreciated

> 	In my previous attempts, just taking the --prefix=/usr and left all other setting along 
> 	is enough and all thing would work.
> 
> 	Ok, all I can tell is this, as I also still begin to explore these stuff!! But you might want to 
> 	post these kind of question to fonts xfree86 org or other related list. You'd get more 
> 	response from there !! All active members of this field are there ^^
> 
> 	Notes : you can also get a precompiled mozilla from keithp.com, it's really great !!
> 
> Enjoy
> Zenith
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