Re: Pango support for X fonts (Was: Re: How to use X fonts in my GTK appication?)

["Nix N. Nix" <nix go-nix ca>]

On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 13:44 -0500, Owen Taylor wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 11:41 -0700, Nix N. Nix wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 15:19, Maciej Katafiasz wrote:
> > > Pango no longer supports core X fonts, the only backend (on X, anyway)
> > > is xft nowadays. So whatever you do to pangox.alias file, it's not going
> > > to have any effect on pango
> >
> > This is very unfortunate, especially when you try to install gtk+-2.4
> > into your home directory, on a machine where you don't have root
> > access.  Pango should be able to fall back to whatever fonts are
> > available, because not every X server in the world has the "Render"
> > extension, and not every X server in the world is XFree86 or X.org,
> > complete with Xft2.

> Xft works fine (if a bit slowly) on servers without the Render
> extension.

OK, granted. Despite that, we were unable to compile Xft and so gtk+
configure refused to complete noting that it requires pango to have
these fonts.

Thus, gtk+-2.4 is unavailable to us :o(