libXrender - documentation?

Michel Dänzer michel at daenzer.net
Tue Jan 27 00:54:04 PST 2009


On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 20:40 +0100, Clemens Eisserer wrote:
> 
> > But who is actually responsible for the development/maintenance of xft?
> > For sure they do not seem to hang around on this list, though I gather
> > they are within the overall Xorg structure somewhere.
> XFT is more or less a sample implementation, and as far as I know its
> not used a lot.
> As far as I know QT does its own glyph handling, so does GTK with pango.

According to

apt-cache --installed rdepends libxft2

Qt4 indeed no longer seems to use Xft (whereas Qt3 did), but Pango still
seems to use it.

Also, /usr/share/doc/libxft2/copyright contains:


It was downloaded from
<URL: http://xlibs.freedesktop.org/release/libXft-2.1.7.tar.gz >.

Upstream maintainer: Keith Packard


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