Hey all, SuSE 7.3 Pro, KDE 3.0.2 As mentioned on the list earlier, the QT3 RPM for 7.3 (and earlier) for KDE 3.0.2 is set up so Xft is not used (thus preventing anti-aliasing on the desktop and other places). I tried rebuilding the RPM and changing the build.sh script so it included Xft support. But the rebuilt RPM gives the problem where X starts and stops several times then goes into console mode. Very much like the problem many had with KDE 3.0.0. Maybe I rebuilt wrong? This was my first ever attempt to use a source RPM to rebuild a package. Here's the steps I took: 1- Installed the qt3 src RPM from kde.org's SuSE 7.3 release. 2- In SU mode, changed the build.sh script: [ "$VERSION" -lt 800 ] && XFT="-no-xft -no-xrender " || XFT="-xft -xrender -I/usr/include/freetype2/ " changed to [ "$VERSION" -lt 702 ] && XFT="-no-xft -no-xrender " || XFT="-xft -xrender -I/usr/include/freetype2/ " I could see that this worked during the compile. 3- In qt3.spec, changed a statement so: echo "useXft=true" >> ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}/etc/X11/qtrc rather than useXft=false. 4- Rebuilt using "rpm -bb qt3.spec" . Three i386 RPMs were made with this (qt3, qt3-devel, qt3-devel-doc) I then uninstalled the qt3 RPM that came with 3.0.2, and intalled the newly rebuilt one. But then X wouldn't start. Going back to the "official" RPM fixed that. Since the 8.0 version isn't affected by this Xft issue, I tried the RPM for it as well, but no X start for it either. The problem that caused Adrian to build this without Xft support was in the 4.1 version of X. I'm using 4.2, and had no problem with earlier QT builds (prior to the end of May) that had Xft support. Maybe I missed something? Do I need to rebuild any other RPMs? Why am I as a XFree86 4.2 user being put through this just to get anti-aliasing to work? Why are we given no options? (Frustration questions...) Ah, well. For now, my Star Trek desktop font looks like a big unreadable mess... Later, Joe "Flame" Sullivan -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Firechild Web Design and CGI Scripting Services http://firechild.net Secretary, World Association of Internet Marketing http://waim.org Webmaster, Amerikanska - For Americans In Sweden http://amerikanska.com Meta-editor, Open Directory Project http://dmoz.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------