>Sven Neumann wrote: >
busmanus <busmanus.lk@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Here's what's inside my (automatically generated) pangoxft.pc:
prefix=/usr/local etc...
> >... >
This looks good except for the version number. You should use the latest stable release which is 1.2.5. There are a couple of important bug-fixes since 1.2.0, perhaps they even fix your problems.
> >I downloaded and compiled pango-1.2.5, but it didn't help in itself, >althogh I haven't tried out every possibility with it yet. I still >have a suspicion that it's really Xft that I messed up things with. >I'd like to ask, what version of fontconfig and Xft is considered to >cooperate best with the gtk+ libraries.
I should have closed this thread long ago, it's about two weeks or more that I finished installing the new gtk (I finally got v2.2.4). The reason for the delay was that I was planning to write a lot about the particulars of what the solution was, but I don't think I can ever get down to that.
Anyway, I reinstalled my whole system in the meantime, and for the second time I didn't allow fontconfig-xft (versions 2.2.0 and 2.1.2)to overwrite any of my system files (I set the DESTDIR variable to a custom path at installation time to achieve that, and used the package stow afterwards to link the files to their run-time places). This helped me in noticing, that some files of Xft1 remained even after installing the new version, because they caused no name conflict. So I made a big cleanup, which eventually solved the problem. I consulted the file lists in /var/lib/dpkg/info to decide what to remove.
I'm not quite sure which files caused the trouble, because I didn't have the time to check every possible setting. After compiling everything successfully, another problem appeared, because programs, depending on Xft1 (like xterm) refused to start. I am still not sure, what would be the best way to solve this (copying the original binaries back or installing the Xft1 wrapper(?) in eg. fcpackage-2.1).
Regards,
busmanus
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