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clansman77

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Registered: 2008-01-22

Posts: 7

cairo-lcd??

has cairo-lcd been removed from community??coz i cant find one.pacman says not found in sync database.:rolleyes:

brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

Posts: 3,066

Re: cairo-lcd??

Hehe. cairo-ubuntu seems to be the only cleartype-ish cairo that's up-to-date

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Cippa Lippa

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From: Toronto, ON

Registered: 2007-04-12

Posts: 159

Re: cairo-lcd??

I also have a problem with cairo-lcd. Yaourt ask me to replace cairo-lcd with cairo...
What should I do??

fwojciec

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Registered: 2007-05-20

Posts: 1,411

Re: cairo-lcd??

That patch that used to be applied to cairo to make it cairo-lcd no longer works, and it's not being developed either.  The maintainer of the cairo-lcd in AUR has orphaned the package for this reason.  You best option is to do what the post above yours suggests -- that is replace the -lcd packages with the -ubuntu packages.

Cippa Lippa

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From: Toronto, ON

Registered: 2007-04-12

Posts: 159

Re: cairo-lcd??

thanks!

Cippa Lippa

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From: Toronto, ON

Registered: 2007-04-12

Posts: 159

Re: cairo-lcd??

mmm... well, now ALL my fonts are screwed up!

Demind

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Registered: 2007-07-10

Posts: 111

Re: cairo-lcd??

mmm... well, now ALL my fonts are screwed up!

You can follow the wiki from the beginning removing your -lcd fonts and installing the -ubuntu ones...that would solve your problem. I did it last week and everything went fine

fwojciec

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Registered: 2007-05-20

Posts: 1,411

Re: cairo-lcd??

I assume that the problem has to do with the configuration of fontconfig.  Fontconfig is configured by linking "available" configs from /etc/fonts/conf.avail/ to /etc/fonts/conf.d.  This is what I have in /etc/fonts/conf.d:

ls -l /etc/fonts/conf.d/
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 2008-04-12 22:35 10-hinting-medium.conf -> ../conf.avail/10-hinting-medium.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 35 2008-04-12 16:56 10-sub-pixel-rgb.conf -> ../conf.avail/10-sub-pixel-rgb.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 2008-04-12 22:33 20-fix-globaladvance.conf -> ../conf.avail/20-fix-globaladvance.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 2008-04-12 22:33 20-unhint-small-vera.conf -> ../conf.avail/20-unhint-small-vera.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 42 2008-04-12 22:33 30-replace-bitmap-fonts.conf -> ../conf.avail/30-replace-bitmap-fonts.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 2008-04-12 22:33 30-urw-aliases.conf -> ../conf.avail/30-urw-aliases.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 2008-04-12 22:33 49-sansserif.conf -> ../conf.avail/49-sansserif.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 2008-04-12 22:33 50-user.conf -> ../conf.avail/50-user.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 2008-04-12 22:33 51-local.conf -> ../conf.avail/51-local.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 2008-04-12 22:33 60-latin.conf -> ../conf.avail/60-latin.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 35 2008-04-12 22:33 65-fonts-persian.conf -> ../conf.avail/65-fonts-persian.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 2008-04-12 22:33 65-nonlatin.conf -> ../conf.avail/65-nonlatin.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 2008-04-12 22:33 69-unifont.conf -> ../conf.avail/69-unifont.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 2008-04-12 22:33 80-delicious.conf -> ../conf.avail/80-delicious.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 2008-04-12 22:33 90-synthetic.conf -> ../conf.avail/90-synthetic.conf

When configured like that the -ubuntu packages seem to actually look nicer than the old -lcd packages, although this obviously depends on your preferences and the screen you are using.

slackhack

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Registered: 2004-06-30

Posts: 738

Re: cairo-lcd??

I just ran into the same problem and replaced -lcd with -ubuntu. But it looks like that is not going to be a good long-term solution:

root@homer:~ # pac
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 community is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
:: cairo conflicts with cairo-ubuntu. Remove cairo-ubuntu? [Y/n] n
error: unresolvable package conflicts detected
error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies)
:: cairo: conflicts with cairo-ubuntu
root@homer:~ # vim /etc/pacman.conf
root@homer:~ # pac
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 community is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
:: pango requires installing cairo from IgnorePkg/IgnoreGroup. Install anyway? [Y/n] n
error: cannot resolve "cairo>=1.6.4", a dependency of "pango"
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: pango: requires cairo>=1.6.4

what to do now? pango is needed for tons of packages. :?:

>edit: I agree, the -ubuntu packages do look better!

Last edited by slackhack (2008-04-21 16:38:08)

zyghom

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From: Poland/Tanzania

Registered: 2006-05-11

Posts: 429

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Re: cairo-lcd??

replace cairo-ubuntu with cairo (for upgrade purposes)
then install cairo-lcd from aur
this cairo-lcd provides cairo as well:

paqi cairo-lcd

Name           : cairo-lcd
Version        : 1.6.4-2
URL            : http://cairographics.org/
Licenses       : LGPL  MPL  
Groups         : None
Provides       : cairo=1.6.4  
Depends On     : libpng  libxrender  fontconfig  pixman>=0.10.0  
Optional Deps  : None
Required By    : cairo-perl  cairomm  pango  poppler  pycairo  
Conflicts With : cairo  
Replaces       : None
Installed Size : 1198.51 K
Packager       : papio
Architecture   : i686
Build Date     : Sun 20 Apr 2008 10:12:40 PM EEST
Install Date   : Sun 20 Apr 2008 10:13:17 PM EEST
Install Reason : Explicitly installed
Install Script : No
Description    : Cairo vector graphics library (with custom LCD filter).

Last edited by zyghom (2008-04-21 17:07:44)

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Registered: 2008-01-27

Posts: 410

Re: cairo-lcd??

cairo-lcd stinks. It's nowhere near mac quality. cairo-ubuntu is closer.

Mikko777

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From: Suomi, Finland

Registered: 2006-10-30

Posts: 837

Re: cairo-lcd??

cairo-lcd stinks. It's nowhere near mac quality. cairo-ubuntu is closer.

I find the opposite to be true cairo-lcd and fontconfig-lcd = crisp fonts and ubuntu = blurry fonts.

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brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

Posts: 3,066

Re: cairo-lcd??

To fix blurry fonts, try editing ~/.Xresources to switch to one of Ubuntu's other rendering methods.

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fwojciec

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Registered: 2007-05-20

Posts: 1,411

Re: cairo-lcd??

cairo-lcd stinks. It's nowhere near mac quality. cairo-ubuntu is closer.

I find the opposite to be true cairo-lcd and fontconfig-lcd = crisp fonts and ubuntu = blurry fonts.

The -lcd packages had only one possible configuration, -ubuntu packages can be configured in at least 4 different ways.  If you didn't configure the -ubuntu packages explicitly (by linking the appropriate configs to /etc/fonts/conf.d) then the default configuration was probably not the best for your particular screen.  Personally I configure the -ubuntu packages to look like the -lcd packages (i.e. hinting-medium option) -- except the -ubuntu packages look better, because they seem to fix some annoying hinting errors of the -lcd packages.

slackhack

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Registered: 2004-06-30

Posts: 738

Re: cairo-lcd??

so how do we upgrade the system with cairo-ubuntu installed? -d ?

>>edit: n/m just saw zyghom's post, used old cairo-ubuntu pkg, seemed to work. my cairo-unbuntu that i had in abs is 1.5.6-1 though -- didn't i see a newer one linked somewhere in one of these threads?

Last edited by slackhack (2008-04-21 19:27:26)

brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

Posts: 3,066

Re: cairo-lcd??

Use cairo-ubuntu link for the time being. Update it to 1.6.4 and those package upgrade problems will disappear.

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slackhack

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Registered: 2004-06-30

Posts: 738

Re: cairo-lcd??

Use cairo-ubuntu link for the time being. Update it to 1.6.4 and those package upgrade problems will disappear.

thanks, i suspected it was b/c the package was so old. appreciate.

wyvern

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From: 'Old' Scottish/English border.

Registered: 2008-01-06

Posts: 70

Re: cairo-lcd??

Use cairo-ubuntu link for the time being.

Oh thank you! I was wondering where on earth the PKGBUILD had gone for the -ubuntu patches, did someone mistakenly delete them from AUR?

The regular cairo was all right but once I'd tried -ubuntu, I just couldn't go back

ekerazha

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Registered: 2007-02-27

Posts: 290

Re: cairo-lcd??

cairo-lcd stinks. It's nowhere near mac quality. cairo-ubuntu is closer.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fon … er_for_Xft

Last edited by ekerazha (2008-04-26 12:00:48)

ekerazha

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Registered: 2007-02-27

Posts: 290

Re: cairo-lcd??

The new fontconfig-lcd package (release -3) fixes this by default.