When emerging openbox 2.3.1, it is compiled without XFT support. Adding --enable-xft in commonbox.eclass works like a charm. There's a chance that openbox automake mechanism has a bug, since it should be enabled by default. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge =openbox-2.3.1 2. openbox --help 3. Actual Results: Compile time options: Debugging No Shape: Yes Xft: No Xinerama: No 8bpp Ordered Dithering: No Expected Results: Compile time options: Debugging No Shape: Yes Xft: Yes Xinerama: No 8bpp Ordered Dithering: No
been fixed, however 2.3.0 has been brought back as the current stable version due to subtle issues with 2.3.1.