172768 - (xft_tracking) xft tracking bug

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Graphics, defect)

Description

[Christopher Blizzard (:blizzard)]

Hang your xft bugs here!

Comment 1

[Tomas Pluskal]

how do I add bugs here ? I wanted to add bug 182878
thanks

Comment 2

[Panagiotis Vossos]

I build mozilla using --enable-xft and I get weird behaviour when scrolling.  I
have noticed this bug since 1.2.  This is on a machine with linux 2.4, xfree86
4.3, gcc 2.95.3 and glibc 2.2.5.  I attach all the `configure' parameters I use
at the end.

First of all, with my xft-enabled builds, I get a blinking cursor everywhere,
even if I am not at a text input field. If I press page-down, the behaviour
depends on where the blinking cursor is; this is a bit complicated, I 'll try to
explain the best that I can.

For example, on slashdot there is a short `Sections' column at the left which is
shorter than the others.  If the blinking cursor is on that, then page down
doesn't work correctly; it shows the next page for 0.1 seconds and then returns
to the current page.  This doesn't happen if I first click on the longer central
column somewhere (where the main stories are).  I've noticed this problem on all
similar pages and I have to use the scroll-bar.

Pressing `space' also doesn't do anything, whereas till 1.0.x I always used the
space to scroll the page down.

I have not build mozilla without xft since 1.0.x, so I am not sure that this is
because of --enable-xft.  I am just guessing, since apart from `--enable-xft' I
use more or less the same configure options since 0.8.  Moreover, I've not
encountered the problem on other non-xft builds; I don't get any blinking cursor
and scrolling works perfectly.

The commands that I use in my spec file to build mozilla are:


export MOZILLA_OFFICIAL=1
export BUILD_OFFICIAL=1
export MOZ_INTERNAL_LIBART_LGPL=1

./configure \
	--prefix=%{_prefix} \
	--mandir=%{_mandir} \
	--enable-optimize=-O3 \
	--enable-strip-libs \
	--enable-nspr-autoconf \
	--enable-crypto \
	--enable-xft \
	--enable-reorder \
	--enable-strip \
	--enable-elf-dynstr-gc \
	--enable-cpp-rtti \
	--enable-extensions="all" \
	--enable-svg \
	--with-system-jpeg \
	--with-system-png \
	--with-system-mng \
	--with-system-zlib \
	--disable-debug \
	--disable-tests \
	--disable-jsd \
	--disable-mathml \
	--disable-accessibility \
	--disable-dtd-debug \
	--disable-logging
make

Comment 3

[kmike]

What about bug 236739? It seems like regression from bug 197037...

Comment 4

[Zack Weinberg (:zwol)]

I am under the impression that Xft has long since been superseded by some combination of freetype, pango, cairo, and harfbuzz.  Does it still make sense to keep this bug and/or its dependencies open?

Comment 5

[Zack Weinberg (:zwol)]

... also I don't know what it's doing under XUL.

Comment 6

[Jeff Muizelaar [:jrmuizel]]

XFT is no more.