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Old 08-11-2009, 07:35 AM   #136
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I've written up most of this thread's findings:
http://www.vcn.bc.ca/~dugan/slackware-fonts/
The results are lovely, especially the droid fonts.
Thank you.
 
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Old 09-02-2009, 07:23 AM   #137
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@dugan

What are the changes required for Slackware 13.0?

.XDefaults doesn't seem to work.

Do I need to rebuild Freetype, Fontconfig, libXft and Cairo for subpixel rendering to work?

Thanks
 
Old 09-02-2009, 01:25 PM   #138
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What are the changes required for Slackware 13.0?

.XDefaults doesn't seem to work.

Do I need to rebuild Freetype, Fontconfig, libXft and Cairo for subpixel rendering to work?
???

The process for Slackware 13 is exactly as described. And, exactly the same as for 12.1 and 12.2.

~/.Xdefaults (note capitalization and location) works after you run xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults. This is usually run automatically, as soon as you log into X.

If you want the type of font rendering advocated in this thread, then yes you have to rebuild those packages. I would then blacklist them in slackpkg to prevent slackpkg from overwriting them.

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Old 09-05-2009, 03:51 AM   #139
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Hm, I have a unpleasant bug with all our perfect font patches (with both the old school version of just three patches _and_ with the new school version of all the 9458604 available patches applied ) - it excludes Japanese from being rendered perfectly.

This looks like this:

Bad rendering

in comparison to my perfect rendering with Slackware 12.2:

Nice rendering

This concerns not just showing the font in gvim (like in the screenshots, but also with less or plain vim in "terminal" (Xfce's terminal which I always use).

As I don't install a new home dir, all my old configs are completely untouched, my fonts.conf and the fonts itselves the same as ever - only the Slackware installation is new.

Any ideas? Maybe something totally easy to configure I have to do with Slack 13?
 
Old 09-05-2009, 03:53 AM   #140
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And we should really open the "once and for all perfect fonts under slackware" thread
 
Old 09-05-2009, 03:54 AM   #141
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Did you enable bytecode interprter in the slackbuild? I think Dugan's by default doesn't enable it? Not sure if that would help but maybe.
 
Old 09-05-2009, 05:53 AM   #142
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Yes, I tried 3 variations:


* Only our old patches (Cleartype variation) enabled
* all patches straight as Dugan supplied them as Cleartype variation
* all patches as Ubuntu variation

I also re-build vim just to be on the safe side and tried with Dugan's fontconfig build and with Slack's out-of-the-box fontconfig package.

All with the same font.

Funnily, it's really _only_ japanese.
 
Old 09-05-2009, 10:20 AM   #143
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Did you enable bytecode interprter in the slackbuild? I think Dugan's by default doesn't enable it?
Yes it does.
 
Old 09-30-2009, 12:21 PM   #144
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Nice Job, cool!!!
 
Old 10-31-2009, 09:25 AM   #145
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These make such a difference to my slackware, thanks for putting up the easy instructions at http://www.vcn.bc.ca/~dugan/slackware-fonts/
 
Old 12-27-2009, 06:13 PM   #146
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Dugan, have you tested out the Ubuntu patches on the new version of Cairo (cairo-1.8.8) that is needed for Firefox 3.5.6? I tried going through your slackbuild and the patches you have posted on your site for 1.8.6, but I'm not having much luck.
 
Old 12-29-2009, 12:44 AM   #147
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I'll try to get to it by tomorrow.
 
Old 01-03-2010, 03:51 PM   #148
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Okay, the new SlackBuilds are up (Freetype 2.3.11, Fontconfig 2.8.0, LibXft 2.3.14, Cairo 1.8.8).
 
Old 01-03-2010, 08:47 PM   #149
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Thanks! They look great, as always.
 
Old 01-04-2010, 06:21 AM   #150
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Upgraded to new versions. It is weird that everything works fine, except Firefox (3.5.6), the fonts like the patches never been applied.
 
  


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