Emacs+XFT
Here is how I went about building a version of Emacs that has XFT support on Ubuntu 6.06.
Install the latest GTK Emacs snapshot:
Configure and build:
Update /etc/alternatives to point to the new binary:
References: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/XftGnuEmacs
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=1051268&postcount=53
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki?action=browse;oldid=EmacsCvs;id=EmacsFromCVS
sudo apt-get install emacs-snapshot-gtk
Check out the emacs-unicode-2 branch into /opt:
cd /optsudo cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.savannah.gnu.org:/cvsroot/emacs co -remacs-unicode-2 emacsConfigure and build:
./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-font-backend --with-xft --with-freetype --with-gtk --x-includes=/usr/include/X11 --x-libraries=/usr/lib/X11sudo make bootstrapsudo makeUpdate /etc/alternatives to point to the new binary:
sudo rm /etc/alternatives/emacssudo ln -s /opt/emacs/src/emacs /etc/alternatives/emacsReferences: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/XftGnuEmacs
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=1051268&postcount=53
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki?action=browse;oldid=EmacsCvs;id=EmacsFromCVS
