Information from David Mihm (davemann@ionet.net
), posted in the AfterStep
mailing list:
You are looking for a server for True Type fonts. A blurb about one of the few programs to provide this server to any WM:
Xfstt means "X11 Font Server for TT fonts" TT
fonts are generally regarded to be the best
scalable fonts for low resolution devices like
screens.
This server can be obtained from sunsite: ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/X11/fonts/
You might want to check freshmeat to see if there are newer versions.
According to F. Nicolaas Benders (benders@slackworks.com
), there may be
difficulties with the server:
I've been running the 0.97 version and it works well with one major problem.
Whenever I start it, it automatically slams my CPU and won't let go until it's
killed. I refuse to believe that a font server should need more than 50% of my
proccessor time constantly, has anyone else had any experience with this?
Naturally, if anyone has had such experiences, we would be glad to hear of it!
WindowMaker a new NeXT-like window manager that is being developed by Alfredo
Kojima (kojima@inf.ufrgs.br
) with the support of a lot of other people. It
will support many OpenStep/GNUStep-ish features, and there is talk that it may
be the "next-generation _asnl", and even the window manager of choice for
GNUstep. You can download it from
http://www.windowmaker.org
However, be advised that WindowMaker is still in a early stage of development, so don't plan on using it for real work for now unless you want to cope with a lot of unimplemented features. It is advancing very fast, though, so you may also want to take a good look at it.
ASCP stands for `AfterStep Control Panel', and is a program that allows you to configure AfterStep while imitating the NEXTSTEP control panel look and feel. It makes it really easy to configure AfterStep without manually fiddling with the .steprc file. There is more information about how to get it below. Make sure you read it carefully!
WARNING: AfterStep doesn't use .steprc since version 1.2, so if you use ASCP, you will have to run AfterStep in 'compatibility' mode:
afterstep -f {yeoldsteprc}
There is a version of TkStep which is supposed to work with Tk 7.6, but it does not seem to work for everyone. The best approach is probably to upgrade: the latest version of TkStep works with Tk8.0; see below for more information about TkStep.
ASCP needs TkStep. TkStep is a version of Tk implemented by Alfredo
Kojima (kojima@inf.ufrgs.br
), and now maintained by Oliver Graf
(ograf@fga.de
) and Steve Murray (stevem@eng.uts.edu.au
); it gives
Tk the NEXTSTEP look-and-feel, and implements a few new widgets, like font
and color choosers. You can download it from
http://www.fga.de/~ograf/TkStep.shtml or
http://touchwood.ee.uts.edu.au/TkSTEP/TkSTEP.html. ASCP does not yet
work with the new configurations anyway (i.e. post 1.2), so you might not
need to worry about this. What's more, you need a patch to ASCP to use it
with the latest version of TkStep. You can get the patch from Steve
Murray's site:
http://touchwood.ee.uts.edu.au/TkSTEP/fixes.html.
These patches only work for versions 0.8 and 0.8-SE, but not for
0.8.4. You must patch ASCP before using it with Tk 8.0, or your .steprc
file will be corrupted.
A new version of ASCP which will not depend on TkStep (but on something more standard) is in development. The new version will also support the new-style configuration.