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libXft - X FreeType library
libXft is the client side font rendering library, using libfreetype, libX11, and the X Render extension to display anti-aliased text.
Xft version 2.1 was the first stand alone release of Xft, a library that connects X applications with the FreeType font rasterization library. Xft uses fontconfig to locate fonts so it has no configuration files.
Before building Xft you will need to have installed:
- FreeType https://freetype.org/
- Fontconfig https://fontconfig.org/
- libX11, libXext, & libXrender https://x.org/
All questions regarding this software should be directed at the Xorg mailing list:
https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
The master development code repository can be found at:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXft
Please submit bug reports and requests to merge patches there.
For patch submission instructions, see:
https://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
To release a version of this library:
- Update the version number in configure.ac
- Fix the NEWS file
Change version number
Set the date
add highlights - Commit those changes
- rebuild the configuration files with autogen.sh
sh autogen.sh --sysconfdir=/etc --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man - Follow the steps listed in https://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/ReleaseHOWTO/
Keith Packard
keithp@keithp.com