From: Kenichi Handa <handa@ni.aist.go.jp>
To: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Freenet.DE>
Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org
Subject: Re: 23.0.60; Problems with Apple's libXft and configure
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 20:51:39 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1JKuQl-0004i8-Mw@etlken.m17n.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E4DE41FF-A984-46E2-899F-97CD11962ECF@Freenet.DE> (message from Peter Dyballa on Fri, 1 Feb 2008 10:28:57 +0100)
In article <E4DE41FF-A984-46E2-899F-97CD11962ECF@Freenet.DE>, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Freenet.DE> writes:
> No. Since many weeks, maybe months, I have the X resource
> Emacs.FontBackend: x
> set or I launch GNU Emacs with --disable-font-backend. So I can
> configure with '--enable-font-backend --with-xft.' When I make
> Emacs.FontBackend: xft
> active GNU Emacs 23.0.60 crashes after a few seconds with
> Fatal error (11)Segmentation fault
> Exit 139
> when I launch it without --disable-font-backend. So libXft still
> cannot be used for font rendering (though it works in Apple's xterm).
> I could use it last summer (or autumn ?) last time, but the results
> were not recognised as an improvement and documentation is so sparse
> that I did not see a chance to make it look better, make it use my
> preferred font.
Please try to configure Emacs with --enable-font-backend
and --without-xft, and set this resource:
Emacs.FontBackend: ftx
With this setting, Emacs uses Freetype directly.
---
Kenichi Handa
handa@ni.aist.go.jp
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-01 11:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-31 0:30 23.0.60; Problems with Apple's libXft and configure Peter Dyballa
2008-01-31 13:39 ` Peter Dyballa
2008-02-01 5:10 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-02-01 9:28 ` Peter Dyballa
2008-02-01 11:51 ` Kenichi Handa [this message]
2008-02-01 14:04 ` Peter Dyballa
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=E1JKuQl-0004i8-Mw@etlken.m17n.org \
--to=handa@ni.aist.go.jp \
--cc=Peter_Dyballa@Freenet.DE \
--cc=emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).