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Thank you very much for providing those packages, I used to recompile freetype with the 'problem' code enabled, but with the extra patches everything looks even better - even though I think that recompiling only freetype and fontconfig work just fine for my tastes
But regarding your posted conf.d dir, I find that I'm missing the 52-languageselector.conf file, what's its contents and where does it get installed from?
Just upgraded to newest -current, cairo and freetype included. Obvious result - firefox and thunderbird look awful now. Unfortunately I couldn't find subpixel rendering patches for cairo 1.10 and freetype 2.4.3 that would fit Dugan's slackbuilds. If anybody got it going, I would be grateful.
Just upgraded to newest -current, cairo and freetype included. Obvious result - firefox and thunderbird look awful now. Unfortunately I couldn't find subpixel rendering patches for cairo 1.10 and freetype 2.4.3 that would fit Dugan's slackbuilds. If anybody got it going, I would be grateful.
Have to agree. The latest 'current' font rendering looks awful here too. I've always been happy with slackware stock font rendering till now. Even without any of dugan's beautifying techniques. There's no way I can live with the new defaults though. Will need to look into this.
Just upgraded to newest -current, cairo and freetype included. Obvious result - firefox and thunderbird look awful now. Unfortunately I couldn't find subpixel rendering patches for cairo 1.10 and freetype 2.4.3 that would fit Dugan's slackbuilds. If anybody got it going, I would be grateful.
I used Dugan's old slackbuilds and Pat's new slackbuilds and made the necessary changes, actually most of the cairo, libXft and freetype patches are not required as they are already included in the new tarballs.
Fontconfig remains the same, so must be recompiled againts -current.
Freetype
Cairo
Fontconfig - (Just Recompile) *or you can skip this altogether, see below
libXft
Also I added a file in the build, source.sh. just run ./source.sh and it will download the source for you. This should save you a few minutes from searching and downloading the sources.
I personally dont mess with fontconfig I just drop in a .fonts.conf file in my home directory with my individual settings, this only works for that user and it is the lazy way... but I like it . Here is my .fonts.conf if interested.
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