[kde-solaris] Latest X server for KDE on solaris2.8
Jan Van Belle
Jan.Van_Belle at alcatel.be
Mon Oct 6 13:22:30 CEST 2003
Jan Van Belle wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I finally got KDE working on my UltraSparc Station (solaris2.8).
> The X-server is (in contrast to my KDE ;-) ) something very old and does
> not support the Xrender and Xft extensions, so I got no anti-aliased fonts.
>
> --> does this anti-aliasing improve text quality a lot??
> --> if yes: is it possible to install (compile) a brand new X server
> (Xfree 4.3.0 I guess) and run it next to the old one??
> I just ask the last because I'd install it locally, since I am far from
> a superuser, not to mention root...
>
Sorry, I pressed the 'send' button to early...
Would it not conflict with the already running one? (using the same port
to listen on, etc. )
Kind regards,
Jan
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