On Tue, Dec 10, 2024 at 08:07:51PM +0000, Chris Green wrote: > On Tue, Dec 10, 2024 at 05:50:01PM +0000, Chris Green wrote: > > I see that xvile can now be built to use TrueType fonts. > > > > Is this straightforward? The xvile that comes in Debian 12 isn't > > built for TrueType so I'll need to build it myself. I've built and > > compiled it before so that's not a big problem but are there any > > particular issues I should be aware of? > > > > Also, will it just allow me to select all the fonts I can see in the > > rest of my GUI?
not really - it needs more work.
I mentioned it to Brendan O'Dea a couple of years ago, and he reported that
there was some problem repainting the screen.
actually, in a quick check, it does run for me, but my configuration has
too much horizontal space (a second problem).
> > The reason for all this is that I have just bought myself a new 4k
> > monitor so I need to make everything use bigger fonts! :-)
> >
> I have just tried:-
>
> ./configure --with-x --with-screen=X11 --with-freetype-config
> --enable-fontsets --with-perl
probably this:
--with-screen=Xaw
(attaching logs for comparison)
>
> ... and it fails (after compiling quite a lot) with:-
>
> make: *** No rule to make target 'x11fancy.c', needed by 'x11fancy.o'.
> Stop.
>
>
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> Chris Green
>
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