https://www.bencode.io/categories/libxft/ Recent content in Libxft on Benny Simmonds Hugo -- 0.149.1 en-us Tue, 07 Dec 2021 21:09:36 +0000 https://www.bencode.io/posts/libxft-bgra/ Tue, 07 Dec 2021 21:09:34 +0000 https://www.bencode.io/posts/libxft-bgra/ <h1 id="the-problem">The Problem</h1> <p><a href="https://st.suckless.org/">st</a> crashes whenever an emoji needs to be rendered.</p> <p>It turns out to be an issue with the underlying font rendering library <code>libXft</code>.</p> <blockquote> <p>libXft is the client side font rendering library, using libfreetype, libX11, and the X Render extension to display anti-aliased text.</p></blockquote> <h1 id="the-solution">The Solution</h1> <p>In its current offical mainline form <code>libXft</code> does not support rendering images.</p> <p>A <a href="https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libxft/-/merge_requests/1">patch</a> by Maxime Coste exists to add support for BGRA glyphs and scaling, effectively enabling emoji rendering support.</p>