Package: slimserver
Version: 6.2.1-2
My machine has Debian/stable as the base distribution and then I
installed slimserver/unstable on top of that. At least in that
configuration, slimserver failed to load the GD library and hence was
unable to use TrueType fonts. The library couldn't be loaded because
of unresolved references to PNG and Xft-related functions. I was able
to work around this problem by adding this line to
/etc/default/slimserver:
export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libpng12.so.0:/usr/lib/libXft.so
It's possible that this problem won't show on a pure Debian/unstable
system, though I did verify that GD.so from Debian/unstable also
doesn't list libpng and libXfg dependencies (I did not check all the
dependent libraries, though).
Another issue I'm wondering about: I have some music with Chinese
titles in it. To get the titles displayed, I switched to the
arphic/ukai.ttf font. However, AFAIK, there is no single font that
covers all the Unicode glyphs, so perhaps SlimServer needs to be
extended to support multiple Unicode fonts and to use the appropriate
font for any given code. Firefox seems to do this nicely, but I have
no idea what logic they use to pick which font (e.g., ukai.ttf does
have English characters but they're ugly so you wouldn't want to use
that font for anything other than the Chinese characters).
--david
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