Hello, this is the development version of the FVWM window manager. I added/changed several USE flags for better customizability and cleaned up the ebuild. Closes bug #17469. Since this is a development version of FVWM it should probably get masked. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
Created attachment 11440 [details] fvwm-2.5.6.ebuild (Update)
*** Bug 17469 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This ebuild doesn't successfully enable Xft when it should (based on the other ebuilds installed). This appears to be because the fontconfig package is missing fontconfig-config. I'm not sure if there's some way to get around this with environment vars or options to configure, but I haven't been able to find one yet. I have this same problem configuring fvwm 2.5.6 by hand.
Xft support works for me (or at least it seems so). I've got X 4.3 installed so all I have to do to get some nice aa fonts is putting something like this in my .fvwm2rc configuration file: MenuStyle * Font "xft:Verdana:Light:size=12:rgba=rgb"
i've made a build for 2.5.7 but won't commit it just yet. it's a modded version of the 2.5.6 version housed here. find it at http://cvs.mkeadle.org/ in the proper dir and give feedback
Just searching for fvwm bugs and noticed this one still open, ive since taken over maintaining fvwm from Matt, as I use it and he doesnt :) I put a lot of time into making a new ebuild for the 2.5.7 release, which i think is about as full-featured as it can be, nearly all of the compile time options are now configurable and I've also fixed Xft detection and some minor build bugs. I also changed the behaviour so that USE="-option" explicitly disables a feature rather than letting configure determine whether or not to enable it (setting USE="-gtk" to make a tbz2 for a machine without gtk from a machine with gtk would make a mess, for example), this was quite tricky and involved a bit of experimenting. Ive also decided to include the FvwmTabs module (if you have USE="tcltk perl"), which is really cool and very popular. I am considering back porting a patch posted to fvwm-user to implement translucent menus, which is currently possible with creative use of DynamicPopUpAction and MenuStyle MenuFace with the ImageMagick utilities in a PipeRead, but is a little slow..this patch makes it fast. fvwm-2.5.7-r1 is currently marked ~x86 ~alpha and ~sparc, and has the following USE flags: IUSE="readline ncurses gtk stroke gnome rplay xinerama cjk perl nls png bidi imlib tcltk debug gtk2" If you have any comments on the ebuild, any feedback appreciated.. :) Thanks. -> RESOLVED FIXED.
I decided to add USE flags for the following options that were compulsory in -r1, XPM Image support (If you dont use images, only solid colour, or only use use png) Session Management support (If you never use an xsm compatible session manager) Xft support (Maybe your one of those strange people who dont like eye candy :) Updated set of USE flags: IUSE="readline truetype ncurses gtk stroke gnome rplay xinerama cjk perl nls png bidi imlib tcltk debug gtk2 noxpm nosm" Every compile time options is now configurable, except XRender support, X SHM support, and shaped windows (which i think its better to leave to the configure script to decide)
