So I have been building QT on my netbook from a slackbuild found here:

http://someslack.wordpress.com/infinality-on-slackware/

and it has been compiling for over two hours now. I'm just wondering how long it is going to take. I'm sitting here babysitting the computer and hitting the touchpad every so often because I'm afraid if I leave it alone it will go to sleep or something and mess things up. This is the first time I've ever used slackbuilds. Thanks.

Qt takes about an hour on a very state-of-the-art desktop machine.

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Thank you. As long as it gets done today I'm good.

Edit: It finally got done last night at around 9:30. Seven hours. Whew!

Miranden, you can use the pre-compiled packages if you want. I use virtual machines with Slackware stock installations to build them.

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I have old machines which take time building packages, I save the finished package to media. You only then need to build a package once, if you reinstall.

Thanks, but I already finished it. I have a question for you though if you are still around. First of all, thank you VERY much for the information in your post here:

http://someslack.wordpress.com/infinality-on-slackware/

I followed the instructions, and the improvement is VAST. However, I actually liked it better the way it was when I had installed all the packages (step two), but before I did the fontconfig (step three). This is because I made some changes of my own before I messed with the infinality settings.

How can I get back to that point before I did step three? I do have the default-fontconfig.txt backup that you advised to make, so I know I should go back and re-link those files in /etc/fonts/conf.d. But what about the infinality settings that could possibly conflict? Is making those settings all that infinality is doing (meaning that it wasn't yet doing anything after I did your step two but before I did step three, and in that case I could just uninstall it), or is it doing something else to improve the fonts, which had already taken affect before I did the fontconfig step? I had already restarted the computer a bunch of times between those two steps, so it's clear.

Thank you in advance.

P.S. I don't see a way to comment on your blog, so I will tell you this here. I think this part is a typo:

For me I had to do

or

Is that right?

Yeah, I'm definitely not going to throw anything I compile on this machine away. I'm keeping everything. Thanks!

The vast improvement was because of the patched Freetype being in use. That said, Infinality expects you to use his fontconfig rules to get a predictable result. The links I recommend you to remove, are the ones that I've found they will override some of Infinality's own fontconfig ruleset. I don't know what changes you made before applying Infinality, but if the font appearance you get without touching your /etc/fonts/conf.d is good, then just restore your links and you are good to go

Thanks, that was indeed a double typo

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Sorry, but I do not think I am understanding you properly. I figured that the vast improvement was due to the Freetype package. But if that is the case, then why should I not remove the Infinality package? Was it doing something also prior to my proceeding to step three?

If not, and I do remove it, what difference would it make if Infinality expected me to use Infinality's ruleset? He would not be around to complain about it. Sorry, just trying to understand. (Because removing the links was not the only step I took in the fontconfig step. I also applied one of Infinality's styles. I know how to get the links back, but I don't know how to get rid of the style that I applied. In order to get back to how I was at the end of step two, I would have to do both.)

Thank you!

Oh, so ok, I think I got what you're saying there. No, the fontconfig-infinality package was already there and in use when you were happy with your font rendering. Don't uninstall this, as this, along with Infinality's freetype are the two main packages you need. The reason you experienced the unwanted changes was probably the fact you set the "os style" to "linux". That wasn't an instruction from my tutorial, I just wanted to demonstrate how to use infctl.sh to try different os styles. The one that you liked, was probably the default, which is named "infinality". So to revert to the default style, execute the following:

Hope this helps.

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Oh, okay, I see. So the Infinality fontconfig was already applying its default style before I went in and set the style. I did not know this. I also did not know that the Freetype package was part of Infinality (as in "Infinality's freetype package," as you said). I thought it was completely separate. That is why I couldn't understand you before.

Thank you again so much for this. My fonts look great now. As soon as I get the web fonts and a few more things set up, I'm going to post some screen shots on the font thread!

Glad it was an easy fix Btw, I prefer the default preset too. Plus it's the most tested.