Has anyone managed to get Xft working with the Solaris 9 12/02 release of Xsun with happy new XRender support? I was able to compile and install fontconfig and Xft without too much trouble, however apps compiled with Xft support only show empty space where there should be text while scrolling BadDrawable errors in my console. I'm new to Xft, so I'm not entirely convinced it's not just a configuration problem. Basically, here's the procedure I followed: 1) Compiled and installed fontconfig. 2) Compiled and installed Xft. 3) Executed fc-cache as root -- it found a couple dozen fonts in /usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType along with a couple other similar paths. 4) Compiled QT. 5) :( 6) Thinking maybe it would work better if I also used the version of libXRender bundled with fcpackage_2.1 rather than the one included with Solaris, I compiled and installed libXRender.so and recompiled Xft and QT to use the new version. 7) :( again. I've tried running the programs through truss and I can see them find the configuration file in /etc/fonts, dig through all of the font directories mentioned therein, and pick out a couple fonts to use. The problem seems to appear when it comes time to do the actual rendering of the glyphs. Recompiling QT each time I make a change is a little time consuming -- are there any Xft example apps out there that might draw a simple window with some text that one could use for testing? Unfortunately, I'm not so good at the X Window programming. So has anybody seen an invisible font problem similar to this? Or is maybe the RENDER module included with this new release of Solaris every bit as experimental as Sun has indicated? Thanks for any input.. -- Dan Holm AlertLogic [ http://www.alertlogic.net ]
