font resolution in fltk

[emninger]

@hiro: Juanito told me

but if you're going to use Xft, you might was well use cairo. You will also need the shared libs.

[Juanito]

Would webkitfltk need to be rebuild as well? or could i use the extension as it is (from the repo)?

As far as I know, the webkitfltk-dev extension is only of use to compile fifth - webkitfltk uses fltk-1.3 and cairo, but I don't know if it would use the additional Xft functionality (and any possible cairo functionality) from your myfltk-1.3 extension or not.

Maybe curaga knows more?

BTW webkitfltk takes 40 mins to compile using 4 cores of an intel i7...

[curaga]

No need to enable cairo support in FLTK. It's only used by specific FLTK apps, it doesn't affect font handling, drawing or anything else.

Fifth uses FLTK only for the tabs, menus, and popup windows, so fonts in those would look better. No change in websites themselves.

[emninger]

Would webkitfltk need to be rebuild as well? or could i use the extension as it is (from the repo)?

As far as I know, the webkitfltk-dev extension is only of use to compile fifth - webkitfltk uses fltk-1.3 and cairo, but I don't know if it would use the additional Xft functionality (and any possible cairo functionality) from your myfltk-1.3 extension or not.

Maybe curaga knows more?

BTW webkitfltk takes 40 mins to compile using 4 cores of an intel i7...

Figure out on a poor machine ...

Thanks for the explanation!

[emninger]

No need to enable cairo support in FLTK. It's only used by specific FLTK apps, it doesn't affect font handling, drawing or anything else.

Fifth uses FLTK only for the tabs, menus, and popup windows, so fonts in those would look better. No change in websites themselves.

Ok.

I'd point rather to dillo than fifth. In fifth there are 2 major issues missing, for my taste: configure a proxy inside and home button. Or am i missing something.

In any case, i'd use either dillo or fifth only as "fallback" browser (like i was used to use midori in other distros).

[curaga]

Yes, a proxy has to be currently configured on the command line, see the included docs. There's no home button as I mainly use the ctrl-space hotkey (which you can of course rebind).

[emninger]

Trying to start fifth i get this error msg

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~$ fifth
Detected stale lock file, but no crash report?
Failed reading
??

PS. Solved that by deleting $HOME/.fifth

[emninger]

Yes, a proxy has to be currently configured on the command line, see the included docs.

What do you mean by this? Which included docs? I do not see anything safe some small lines given by fifth -h ... ?

[curaga]

/usr/local/share/fifth/proxy in the fifth.tcz extension.

[emninger]

/usr/local/share/fifth/proxy in the fifth.tcz extension.

Super! Now, is there a way to define a proxy for http and https ?

[curaga]

See man curl.