Here are updated WindowMaker packages for SuSE Linux 8.2 with improved
UTF-8 and Xft2 support:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.2-i586/WindowMaker-0.80.2.20030423-0.i586.rpm
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.2-i586/WindowMaker-devel-0.80.2.20030423-0.i586.rpm
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.2-src/WindowMaker-0.80.2.20030423-0.src.rpm
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.2-i586/wdm-1.20-500.i586.rpm
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.2-src/wdm-1.20-500.src.rpm
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.2-i586/wmakerconf-2.9-93.i586.rpm
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.2-src/wmakerconf-2.9-93.src.rpm
The bug reported by Togan Muftuoglu on this list about "Loosing locale
settings" (see http://lists.suse.com/archive/m17n/2003-Jan/0019.html)
should also be fixed in these packages.
These packages are a CVS snapshot of WindowMaker where I added some
patches to enable Xft support *always*, even on displays without
RENDER extension, because Xft2 can be used always.
You can still switch Xft support off in the config files by setting
"AntialiasedText = no;", but it is now possible to use the same fonts
via Xft also on displays without RENDER. This won't work on 8.1
because 8.1 didn't yet have Xft2, therefore I uploaded these updates
only for 8.2.
I think the anti-aliased fonts look quite nice in WindowMaker and the
font setup is dramatically easier.
wsetfont sans
or
wsetfont serif
now writes font patterns like
WindowTitleFont=-xftdummy-sans-bold-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
~/GNUstep/Defaults/WindowMaker and ~/GNUstep/Defaults/WMGLOBAL which
works in almost all locales without change.
And it is very nice to be able to setup preferred sans or serif fonts
in ~/.fonts.conf, and get the effect throughout the system for all
applications using Xft2. Until now mostly Qt3/KDE3 and Gnome2
applications, but now also WindowMaker.
If you use wdm and wmakerconf, you have to use the updated packages
from pub/people/mfabian as well because they use libs from WindowMaker
and needed to be updated because of the WindowMaker update (But wdm is
pretty buggy, better don't use it).
wmakerconf still has some problems when running in UTF-8 locales, I'll
try to fix that later.
--
Mike Fabian