On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Michael Fratoni wrote: > On Friday 29 November 2002 06:41 pm, Forrest English wrote: > > I'm trying to use openbox on redhat 8, I've installed the Xft and > > Xft-devel packages (version 2.0-1), and I have installed the MS core > > fonts which are available to me in OpenOffice and other apps. When I > > configure openbox I get: > > > > checking whether to build support for the Xft extension... version 2 > > checking for XftFontOpenXlfd in -lXft... no > > > Openbox does build fine, but of course is lacking support to use Xft, > > and of course missing the whole reason I'd use openbox over blackbox. > > > > Does anyone know what I could be missing? (or is anyone using openbox, > > and know for sure what i'm doing wrong?) > > I've just started fooling with openbox, (and building an rpm package for > it) but it appears that openbox 2.1.3 doesn't handle the configuration > for Xft2 properly. > > Version 2.2.1 seems to work. Here is part of the configure output from > each:
I'm using 2.2.1 actually, I get the same output for linker flags, but if you check the config.log it will have it set to false, and when running it, the fonts don't work correctly. If you've got any tips/instructions for how to have the fonts recognized, that'd be neat. -- Forrest English http://truffula.net/~forrest "An evil exists that threatens every man, woman and child of this great nation, we must take steps to ensure our domestic security and protect our homeland." -- Adolf Hitler, on the creation of the Gestapo in Nazi Germany PGP Key: http://truffula.net/~forrest/pub.key 8EC5 F031 E8BC 1BA7 B572 5C32 BAF4 2073 F96C 06AC -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
