Re: galeon-snapshot
On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 11:57, Johan Bilien wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 31, 2002, Koenraad Heijlen wrote:
> > > Oh joy ! A new galeon-snapshot appeared, and it's working like a champ
> > > !
> > >
> > > Is there a way to have xft in the gecko widget ? A pref to modify
> > > somewhere, or an option to tweak when rebuilding mozilla-snapshot ?
> >
> > /etc/mozilla-snapshot/prefs.js
> >
> > around line7:
> > // TryeType
> > pref("font.FreeType2.enable", true);
> > pref("font.freetype2.shared-library", "libfreetype.so.6");
> > [...]
>
> I think that's the old method, using freetype. Apparently the new one
> using xft is not available in Debian yet, according to what I read in
> /usr/share/doc/mozilla-browser-snapshot/changelog.Debian.gz
>
> I guess it should arrive soon since this Mozilla new feature seems more
> and more stable.
I'm pretty sure the Xft in Mozilla needs Xft2/Fontconfig though which
aren't in Debian as of yet.
Xft would be great, just started using Freetype in Mozilla recently and
although it looks great there does seem to be a bit of a speed hit.
Worth it though in my opinion.
Cheers,
Chris
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