Can't get antialiasing to work in flux or openbox in SuSE 8.2. Have tried enabling from the configuration menu but with no effect. Installed artwiz fonts - still no help. Changing fonts in the different styles doen't help either. Have tried enabling/disabling xfs on boot (disabled by default) - no difference.

I am using 0.9.2 unstable of flux because the stable release would not compile with my gcc (3.3-23). Openbox and Blackbox come with the distro. Blackbox doesnt support aa through xft. Had this working fine with 1.14 in older distros so I don't know if its changes in the way the distros handle antialiasing now or what.

Any ideas? Anyone using flux/openbox with Suse 8.2 and have aa working?

Just when I think i've got this font thing figured out, it bites me on the a$$ again.

Did you ./configure --enable-xft ...or something.
If not, see ./configure --help for the right switch.

Thanks...

After failing to compile the stable version (several times) I half expected this one to not work as well so I didn't use any options. Doh!

I try that later and letcha know what happens - doesn't explain openbox tho which was installed as an RPM with the distro.

I looked at the options under ./configure --help and decided specifically enable xft on configure.

./configure --enable-xft

I got the following error:

checking for XftFontOpen in -lXft... yes
Could not link with Xft. Install Xft if you want support for it.

Xft is installed so I guess SuSE put it somewhere different.

locate Xft returns the following:

/usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft
/usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft.h
/usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/XftCompat.h
/usr/X11R6/lib/libXft.a
/usr/X11R6/lib/libXft.so
/usr/X11R6/lib/libXft.so.1
/usr/X11R6/lib/libXft.so.1.1
/usr/X11R6/lib/libXft.so.2
/usr/X11R6/lib/libXft.so.2.1
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XftConfig
/usr/X11R6/man/man3/Xft.3x.gz
/var/cache/man/X11R6/cat3/Xft.3x.gz

I tried ./configure with another option;
./configure --with-xft-prefix=/path/to/xft

I used the first path listed under my locate results, but I got an error:

/usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/bin/pkg-config; no such file or directory.

I don't have a pkg-config on my system. I DO have a /usr/lib/pkgconfig, which
contains xft.pc file (among other .pc files). What is ./configure looking for
when it can't find xft?

Does your distro have a separate devel package like libXft-devel? ...that could be what you're missing.

Here's mine:

All my developement libraries seem to be installed. Plus, when I check the configure log for the 1.14 install (that failed to create an executable), Xft is located properly with no errors. The problem here was the following error:

This was printed at the end of 'make' for flux .1.14. I assumed the newer gcc wasn't going to be able to compile this so tried .9.2

I'm not sure which error is easier to fix - if any

I wanted to post that I was able to get Fluxbox 1.14 running on SuSE 8.2

I took some modifications to the config.h , fluxbox.cc, fluxbox.hh, and fbrun.hh files. If anyone is interested I'll post in the success stories forum.

Thanks

Hi,
I'm getting those same errors about B_AericanDate and B_European date... how did u get it to work?