Personally, I've been wanting to ditch ksirc for ages now in favor of X-Chat, but I missed my AA'ed fonts too much. It seems that X-Chat 1.9.3 compiles fine, and the hebrew Bidi support works as well(No need for --enable-hebrew). To enable the Bidi support just replace "#define USE_XFT 1" with "#define USE_PANGO 1" in config.h and compile. (Thanks DCoder) To use AA : export GDK_USE_XFT=1 before running xchat(It seems that X-Chat doesn't use Pango to actually render the text with Xft or ft2, so this is relevant). This probably comes as old news to some of you, but I decided to post this on the off-chance that others have wanted to use it as much as I did, and maybe I can save some trouble to others trying to achieve the same thing.
A few bugs that can be worked-around : 1) If it fails to load because of some font it can't find (It looked for some obscure font that was not present on my Debian Sid installation until I apt-get'ed some font-pack package), manually change the "text_font =" line in ~/.xchat2/xchat.conf to whatever font you want. Here it's "text_font = Arial 12". 2) Changing the font within the GUI _does_ work, it simply needs a restart of X-Chat. Ignore the error and just restart X-Chat. Hope this will help, Amir. ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
