Re: Dillo + Netsurf broken fonts (sparc64)

[Paolo Vincenzo Olivo <vins%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

Hi,

On 25/11/08 02:41PM, vom513 wrote:
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> [...] 
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> On my sparc64 machines (headless v240, ultra60) - both Dillo and Netsurf(-gtk3) start up and display graphics, but all fonts are either blank or squares.
> 
> [...]
>
> Here is what Dillo says on the U60:
> [...]
> ** WARNING **: preferred sans-serif font "DejaVu Sans" not found.
> ** WARNING **: preferred serif font "DejaVu Serif" not found.
> ** WARNING **: preferred monospace font "DejaVu Sans Mono" not found.
> ** WARNING **: preferred cursive font "DejaVu Sans" not found.
> ** WARNING **: preferred fantasy font "DejaVu Sans" not found.
> Nav_open_url: new url='about:splash'
> Dillo: normal exit!
> 

I can reproduce this while running NetBSD 10.1/sparc64 on a Sun Blade
100. The missing font issue can be fixed by either installing
fonts/dejavu-ttf, or switching to the "classic" X11 bitmap fonts set in
~/.dillo/dillorc.  Yet, this only sorts out the issue partially:
providing a fltk compiled with xft support enabled (default), fonts are
rendered with many artifacts, making Dillo practically unusable.

Here's a screenshot to get an idea: https://0x0.st/K9V9.png
I purposely included the window decorations to show how TTF Liberation
Sans is displayed correctly in the titlebar, which is provided by     
wm/emwm linked against libXft.

My ~/.Xresources contains:

  Xft*dpi:                96
  Xft*autohint:           0
  Xft*antialias:          1
  Xft*hinting:            1
  Xft*lcdfilter:          lcddefault
  Xft*hintstyle:          hintslight
  Xft*rgba:               rgb

Since I don't care about web browsing on such an old machine, I 
gave up on this before trying to delving deeper into the problem, but I
wouldn't mind seeing it fixed with the cooperation of other users here.

Regards,
Paolo