Comments on: Fedora 13 – David Turner LCD Subpixel FIR Filter Font Packages

By: Jakob

Jakob — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 13:21:29 +0000

Yeah, thanks ! I've removed some 'Directives' in local.conf, and Terminus now avaliable!

Another one qustion, that I wanted to ask, is how can I remove some 'rainbow' around liberation fonts? I use .Xresources and local.conf, but small text has much 'rainbow'.

By: Moony

Moony — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 04:00:40 +0000

Ahhh…. I think I know what this is. There is a part near the top that disables bitmap fonts. You should be able to find and remove it. The version of Terminus I use is TTF based, not bitmap based, so it still worked for me. Pretty sure that is the problem though, and let me know if that doesn’t work.

By: Jakob

Jakob — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:10:48 +0000

After moving local.conf to the directory /etc/fonts, I have not found Terminus font in Terminal and other applications..He's gone..I've tried to reinstall packages, but nothing..when I deleted local.conf, font was avaliable..What should I do, to use Terminus with local.conf correct? Thank you

By: Bloo

Bloo — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 10:00:17 +0000

OK, after doing some tests to better report the problem, I realized the following:
freetype-freeworld does NOT modify my LD_PRELOAD, so the part where I was assuming LD_PRELOAD was being overwritten is wrong.
libXft-freeworld includes "/usr/lib/libXft-freeworld/libXft.so.2" twice. This should be a bug, although a very very minor one, as I don't see it makes anything work wrong.

My question is now, is freetype-freeworld really supposed to include "/usr/lib/freetype-freeworld/libfreetype.so.6" in LD_PRELOAD? If it is not, could that be included via either [libXft/cairo]-freeworld? IIRC, it was in older releases of your packages (or, at least, Banshee fonts looked normal before installing F13), and your June 13, 2009 update states that:

"Also, the cairo packages include LD_PRELOAD functionality for the freetype from rpmfusion.org, as I assume anyone installing these packages also will be installing the modified freetype (otherwise it's pretty pointless )"
Again, thanks for your efforts. It is not that difficult to change the variable by myself, but I really wanted to give a little back to you and make this an even more perfect for everyone .

By: Bloo

Bloo — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 08:12:29 +0000

Yes, I have them installed, and installed them all at the same time. Everything works perfectly but this LD_PRELOAD repetition problem.
Completely ignoring how and when the LD_PRELOAD is modified with your packages, could that be that LD_PRELOAD is ignoring the current path and replacing it for the new with repetition? If you say that freetype-freeworld does that, it is being overwritten somewhere… It is also fishy that libXft-freeworld appears twice.

By: Moony

Moony — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 01:48:46 +0000

Hmmm…. not sure why it does that. LD_PRELOAD can be goofy in my experience. Do you have the rpmfusion freetype-freeworld packages installed? I believe they are supposed to implement the LD_PRELOAD functionality.

By: Bloo

Bloo — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 22:22:48 +0000

I (think) I found a small bug in your F13 packages. Banshee was not respecting my font settings and looking in your older posts and comments about LD_PRELOAD, I realized that the LD_PRELOAD variable gets the following:
$ echo $LD_PRELOAD
/usr/lib/libXft-freeworld/libXft.so.2:/usr/lib/libXft-freeworld/libXft.so.2:/usr/lib/cairo-freeworld/libcairo.so.2:
but it should be (as libXft-freeworld appears twice, but freetype-freeworld is not there):

$ echo $LD_PRELOAD
/usr/lib/freetype-freeworld/libfreetype.so.6:/usr/lib/libXft-freeworld/libXft.so.2:/usr/lib/cairo-freeworld/libcairo.so.2

I am not really sure of how this works but it works for me. Maybe my solution is not 100% correct, tweak it as needed.
And, THANKS for your packages, you are the reason I am using Fedora

By: Moony

Moony — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 01:35:45 +0000

Yes, they may be out of date, sorry. The only thing I did to the cairo RPM was to make it respect fontconfig settings. So, maybe I need to just redownload the Fedora src.rpm and build with that. Does the default Fedora cairo enable xcb? What the heck is xcb anyways?

By: Paul Ignatenko

Paul Ignatenko — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 15:28:47 +0000

Hey your SRPMs are out of date, you also don't enable xcb support unfortunately for cairo .

By: Emanuele

Emanuele — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:52:42 +0000

Thanks a lot!!!