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 <mfabian@suse.de> http://www.suse.de/~mfabian 睡眠不足はいい仕事の敵だ。