Havoc> You are doomed, GTK just uses the underlying X string-drawing
Havoc> mechanism, and X does not support this.
X itself doesn't, but the cool little "xvertext" package does. It can be
found in one of the contrib directories on the X.Org sites (http://www.x.org
or ftp://ftp.x.org).
Havoc> The only thing you can do is use some sort of client-side font
Havoc> rendering, then push a big bitmap of your string onto the X
Havoc> server. People sometimes use FreeType for that.
I believe this is what xvertext does.
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