Firefox 3.0.1: Enable Using Subpixel Hunting!

[lucasuam]

Originally Posted by Fisiu

From repo from 10.3 You need only "cairo" package, because it has working subpixel patch. Cairo form 11.0 doesn't work with subpixel.

Ok.. I see... that's the reason why not everything is working as expected...
I'll try and post back

Kind Regards

Luis

[Fisiu]

To get Qt4 apps looks fine, add KDE:Qt repo and update qt4 packages.

Here is the repo address:

Index of /repositories/KDE:/Qt

[lucasuam]

@Fisiu

I've been for more than 4 hours trying to instal the 10.3 rep and/or trying to install package by package (cairo.rpm and cairo-devel.rpm). Ive tried by all means, with YasT and Zipper.
By the way, It's very hard to get your 10.3 repo to get updated with yast, it takes around 1 hour and fails wih errors, so I guess I will miss the gtk enhancements you talk about

Is there a special way to install these packages in OS11?

Thanks in advance and Kind REgards

Luis

PS. BTW, thanks for the Qt4 repos, I'll try'em ASAP

[Fisiu]

This "10.3" repo is not mine It's official repository for openSUSE 10.3.

It's very simple to instal cairo from it...
Just open termina (konsole) and as normal user type:

cd ~/Desktop
wget -c http://download.opensuse.org/update/10.3/rpm/i586/cairo-1.4.10-25.2.i586.rpm http://download.opensuse.org/update/10.3/rpm/i586/cairo-devel-1.4.10-25.2.i586.rpm
su
rpm -Uvh --force cairo-1.4.10-25.2.i586.rpm cairo-devel-1.4.10-25.2.i586.rpm

And if You already have installed mozilla-xulrunner from my repo, just restart Firefox. You also may need setup font properities in gnome-settings menu.

And one thing more, You need to lock version of cairo packages, to prevent from overwriting. To do this type in terminal as root

zypper al cairo
zypper al cairo-devel

Now, everything should work fine

[lucasuam]

Hi...
Thanks for your kind help

What I did not mention is that I also made something like this:
rpm -e --nodeps cairo*
and later what I did was rpm ívh cairo.rpm cairo-devel.rpm

As you can see I downloaded the wrong packages and besides I deleted al the cairo stuff previusly installed.

Ok. so thakns again for clarifying the version, (I had already downloaded all cairo stuff including the delta rpm

et's see what happens
and I will post back my comments

Kind Regards

Luis

[hujq]

I don't really want to downgrade cairo.
Is there any way to patch the latest cairo 1.6.4?

Regards.

[Fisiu]

For this moment I don't know how to get cairo 1.6.4 working with lcdfilter patches. If I find how to do this, I build packages in my repo home:Fisiu.

Now, only cairo from 10.3 seems working fine.

[hujq]

I find 3 patches for cairo 1.6.4, but I didn't test it. Please have a look.
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ca...type-like.diff
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ca...d-filter.patch
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/poo...buntu1.diff.gz

I'm not sure whether they will work independently or not, but in archlinux, it's also necessary to patch fontconfig and libxft at the same time.

[lucasuam]

Hi

Using cairo from 10.3 to my x86_64 arch, has been quite a PITA, after I applied it, my X session did not want to start, so the only way I could get it back was to go back to my previously packages (even the XUL package), so in order to start over again, ... is it safe to use the cairo 586 package instead of the x86_64?

Kind Regards

Luis

[Fisiu]

Hi.

Thanks for links with patches, I'll try to test them if find some free time. Probably tomorrow evening (UTC Time).