libXft is the client side font rendering library, using libfreetype, libX11, and the X Render extension to display anti-aliased text.
Xft version 2.1 was the first stand alone release of Xft, a library that connects X applications with the FreeType font rasterization library. Xft uses fontconfig to locate fonts so it has no configuration files.
Before building Xft you will need to have installed: - FreeType https://freetype.org/ - Fontconfig https://fontconfig.org/ - libX11, libXext, & libXrender https://x.org/
All questions regarding this software should be directed at the Xorg mailing list:
https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
The master development code repository can be found at:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXft
Please submit bug reports and requests to merge patches there.
For patch submission instructions, see:
https://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
To release a version of this library:
Keith Packard
keithp@keithp.com