xfree86 4.3.0 released

[pbharris]

http://www.xfree86.org/#43release

suppports more cards, including ati and nvidia, some font stuff...

[stryder144]

Thanks, pb. I've got a friend who has an sis 315-based graphics card and now it seems that 4.3 supports it (accelerated at that). Now I can finally get him to try Linux out (he loves my set up but the dang graphics card was killing his desire to try Linux out). These are good days!

Cheers

[demian]

Also new is the long awaited possibility to resize the root window at run-time. And some eye-candy: Support for alpha-blended and animated cursors.

Sounds pretty good. Still I'm gonna wait till the package seeps through to debian testing. I'm happy with my setup as it is.

[Tyr_7BE]

The alpha-blended cursors are HOT.

[quote author=Tyr_7BE link=board=6;threadid=6478;start=0#61132 date=1046619151]
The alpha-blended cursors are HOT.
[/quote]

I protest, they are UGLY, and highly annoying to work with... I would like to turn them off if I could.

[BigFatJoe]

[quote author=Lovechild link=board=6;threadid=6478;start=0#61142 date=1046628987]
I would like to turn them off if I could.
[/quote]

you can't? I sense a disturbance in the force...

[quote author=BigFatJoe link=board=6;threadid=6478;start=0#61143 date=1046630836]
[quote author=Lovechild link=board=6;threadid=6478;start=0#61142 date=1046628987]
I would like to turn them off if I could.
[/quote]

you can't? I sense a disturbance in the force...
[/quote]

As I understand, you have to replace the iconset, this feature SHOULD not be enabled per default - alpha blending is UGLY in most places, and very hard on the idea at times (plus user-non-friendly implementations are all I've seen - execpt on panels)

coming up on a week of use here no troubles but there have been some issues with gnome 2.2 and related packages (gtk, pango, etc).

but i don't use those. i noticed though the things are just a bit crisper looking now. i don't play with fonts or eye candy so i dunno what that crud is like. pretty well the same as 4.2.1 to me.

[quote author=sarah31 link=board=6;threadid=6478;start=0#61338 date=1046881339]
but i don't use those. i noticed though the things are just a bit crisper looking now. i don't play with fonts or eye candy so i dunno what that crud is like. pretty well the same as 4.2.1 to me.
[/quote]

That would be the new freetype which is included with this release... sadly it's only 2.1.1 and not the newer (and better) 2.1.3 release.

[Tyr_7BE]

[quote author=Lovechild link=board=6;threadid=6478;start=0#61142 date=1046628987]
I protest, they are UGLY, and highly annoying to work with... I would like to turn them off if I could.
[/quote]

You can. You'll have to hunt around for how to do it (probably an XF86Config flag or something), but I did it accidentally when I upgraded from 4.2.99-4 to 4.3.0. Now I have the standard black arrow . I'm gonna look around to see how I can turn the alpha blending back on, because while it may not honk your horn, it definitely does honk mine

And yes, the fonts look amazing in the new release.