On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 11:52:26PM -0800, Marc Wilson said > On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 06:32:53PM +1300, Paul William wrote: > > In order to use anti-alised fonts in gtk1.2 app in you need to install > > libgdkxft0 . The problem is that this seems to conflict with all gtk2 > > apps including gnome! "After unpacking 401MB disk space will be freed." > > Correct. Package: libgtk2.0-0 ... Conflicts: ... libgdkxft0 Yes, they do Conflict. > > Is there a way to install this package without dropping all gtk2 apps? > > No. Do you really want to? Package: libgdkxft0 ... Description: transparently adds anti-aliased font support to gtk+-1.2 *** THIS WILL CAUSE APPLICATIONS TO CRASH, DIE, LOSE INFORMATION, AND OTHER NASTY EFFECTS. DON'T USE THIS IF YOU WANT STABILITY *** . Using an LD_PRELOAD, this library can transparently add AA fonts to gtk+ applications without recompiling. There are no headers for this library. More seriously, the horrible LD_PRELOAD trick this package plays will cause GTK2 apps to fail (though I can't remember exactly why, anyone?)...you could conceivable craft a wrapper script that only sets up the LD_PRELOAD environment variable for gtk1.2 apps...it wouldn't even bet that hard to do (grep the ldd output of the app you try to run, set LD_PRELOAD if it links against libgtk1.2), but I guess no one has cared enough to do so. -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> | mlspam@ertius.org | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: bemd fissionable VX CDC NSA Subversion analyzer Subversion
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