blackbox

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after
added return false; //wib (comment on 2006-02-27 06:25)
./compile
make all
make install
work
thank you very much

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Hi,

to temporary resolve this problem modify the function hasUnicode() in file
lib/Unicode.cc so it returns false:

...
bool bt::hasUnicode() {

return false; //wib <-----

static bool has_unicode = true;
static bool done = false;
...

have a lot fun

wib

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Hi,

I have compiled with defaults (xft enabled) i will remove
the xft and try again.
will update u in the evening.

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I am experiencing an identical problem to the one reported
by harticus below: not a single letter appears in ANY of
the menus.

I just complied blackbox-0.70.1 from the sources
under current cygwin installation (I have basically
all the cygwin packages installed including all
the font and `devel' packages except for GNOME/KD
related ones).

./configure and make worked smoothly, I did not observe
any serious complaints. All the other window managers
(precompiled ones: twm, fvwm2, wmaker, as well the
two I compiled myself in the same environment: openbox
and afterstep) do not exhibit this problem.

Until this problem is fixed Blackbox is essentially
useless under Cygwin.

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Compiling with or without xft support has no effect. I have
verified this bug on two machines.

I've seen the 'box[es]' elsewhere in Windows when support
for a given language was not available.

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Hi, I've got the same problem. Compiling with/without Xft
made no difference. Earlier versions of
blackbox/fluxbox/fvwm/etc. work with no problem. Only the
fonts in blackbox are screwed up; the fonts are fine within
an xterm. Thanks for any help; I think debugging this will
be tough unless the blackbox dev(s) try cygwin.

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./configure --enable-xft=no

did not solve the problem. I'm running Cygwin on Windows
XP Professional.

I really wanted to be running blackbox.

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If the default is to compile with Xft support if it exists
then I probably did.

I downloaded and compiled at home watching the make a little
closer, there were the following warnings...

libtool: link: warning: undefined symbols not allowed in
i686-pc-cygwin shared libraries
ar cru .libs/libbt.a Application.o Bitmap.o Color.o
Display.o EWMH.o Font.o Image.o Menu.o Pen.o PixmapCache.o
Rect.o Resource.o Texture.o Timer.o Unicode.o Util.o
ranlib .libs/libbt.a

of any use?

How do I stop it compiling with Xft support?

(sorry for being such a newbie!)

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sorry, i was perhaps a bit unclear: did you compile blackbox
with Xft support? if yes, does it happen if you compile
blackbox without Xft support?

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Humm, I'm not sure, I do have the package xorg-x11-fsrv
installed, but I'm don't know how to tell if it's being
used. I'll read up more on the subject, but nothing about
my setup has changed except blackbox 0.65 -> 0.7 (and back ;).

I get the fact that my FontPath is being set to
"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TT
F/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/
X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"

but no errors that I know of (is there a log file written
anywhere?)

afaik, cygwin is using a real X server, xorg-x11 6.8.1.0-9

is there any diagnostics anywhere? I'm using 0.65.0 which
is fine...

I'm more than happy to answer any questions, but I might
need a little help to find the answers as blackbox always
worked ootb before!

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i've never tested cygwin before... does this happen with Xft,
without Xft? Any diagnostic error messages? Does it work
on a real X server?