[stsf] [Fwd: Re: Solaris 9 4/04 and opera 7.23]

[Roland Mainz]

Hi!

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Is it possible that this is a bug in the Xft/STSF-bridge ?

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Subject: Re: Solaris 9 4/04 and opera 7.23
Date: 27 Apr 2004 08:05:50 GMT
From: Martin Paul <map at par.univie.ac.at>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris
References: <40877c94$0$17706$3b214f66 at usenet.univie.ac.at>

Martin Paul <map at par.univie.ac.at> wrote:
> Does anybody else have problems with opera on Solaris 9 4/04 with
> current R/S patches (esp. 112785-34) installed ? opera 7.23 was
> working fine before, but now the font display is broken - only some
> characters are shown, most are missing, which renders opera unusable.

Hm, does nobody else use opera, or is it just me who has these problems
?

I found out that the problem is with the X Freetype library which
has been added to the Solaris OS installation in 4/04 through the
packages SUNWxwxft and SUNWxwxftx. When removing these packages,
everything is fine. Seems like opera is using this library when it's
installed, and this causes the problem.

I put a screenshot of the faulty opera display and output from
"opera -debugfont" with and without this library installed here:

  http://www.par.univie.ac.at/~martin/opera/opera.png
  http://www.par.univie.ac.at/~martin/opera/with-SUNWxwxft.txt
  http://www.par.univie.ac.at/~martin/opera/without-SUNWxwxft.txt

Maybe someone who knows more about fonts etc. can take a look at
it, and see what the problem might be.

I'm not sure if it's a wise idea to remove SUNWxwxft* - while no
other package depends on them, they might be used by some other
component in Solaris (now or in the future).

mp.
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