Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/04/29/13:43:35
you want the xfree mailing list for this realy but...
for eterm have a look at this thread..
www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-03/msg00019.html
or aterm which looks more likely
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-04/msg00129.html
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Grinberg [mailto:gri6507 AT yahoo DOT com]
> Sent: 29 April 2003 18:26
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Eterm / Imlib2 / freetype
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I was trying to find a terminal not only capable of supporting
> transparency, but also capable of tinting (or shading, if you
> will) the
> transparent background. rxvt does not seem to handle this. I found
> Eterm to be a feasible solution. Problem is that to compile Eterm, I
> need imlib2 (I could not find any reference to anyone building this
> under cygwin successfully), which, in turn, requires libttf.so - a
> dynamically linked freetype 1.2 library.
>
> I followed ths instructions for building a .so for freetype,
> but imlib2
> does not seem to like it (dies during the configure script,
> saying that
> the library cannot be found).
>
> Is there an old libftt.so that I can download? Any suggestions for
> compiling freetype / imlib2? Are there any alternatives to using
> Eterm?
>
> Thanks, in advance,
> Paul Grinberg.
>
>
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