X-Git-Url: http://ecere.com/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=INSTALL;h=282f5fd68e62b6821dde836d36cc8171b2eb9bc3;hb=275c57903a637c843ca0393b5b6fc108aaceed6c;hp=e17c913c4aa992452721d1730dce4f249faacb8a;hpb=f13579f834080d6415e21f064960330b0a9fd9fe;p=sdk diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index e17c913..282f5fd 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -Ecere SDK v0.44 - www.ecere.com +Ecere SDK v0.44 - http://ecere.org Linux Installation Notes @@ -6,28 +6,19 @@ Linux Installation Notes ecere/lib in your LD_LIBRARY_PATH. 2. The Linux runtime has dependencies on libX11, libXrender, libGL, libjpeg, -libz, libgif, libfreetype, libncurses, libpng12.so.0 and libfontconfig.so.1 +libz, libgif, libfreetype, libncurses, libpng and libfontconfig -3. Indexed Color depths are not supported in the X driver. -24/16/15bpp are now all working. +3. Indexed Color depths are not supported in the X driver. 24/16/15bpp should all work. -4. You'll need a monospace font which fontconfig can match to "Courier New" -or the code editor text will be extremely small. See +4. If you have trouble seeing text, try installing these fonts: -http://www.ecere.com/blog/2007/11/08/linux-sdk-new-support-for-fonts-alpha-blending-scaling-041174/ + https://fedorahosted.org/releases/l/i/liberation-fonts/liberation-fonts-1.04.tar.gz + http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/ttf-bitstream-vera/1.10/ttf-bitstream-vera-1.10.tar.bz2 -for free fonts download links. +5. You can also try the OpenGL display driver available in (View/Drivers) or by specifying -5. The default display driver on X makes use of the XRender system, which -may have various level of performance or useability depending on the X display -drivers in use. In particular, the closed source accelerated nVidia drivers -rendered the glyphs sometimes as solid blocks on a GeForce 8800GT. This should -be resolved in beta driver version 177.70 and newer. + { + displayDriver = "OpenGL" + } -6. The text rendering performance with some drivers (including the nVidia -drivers) is not what it should be either, and either a future release of the -driver or a future version of the SDK will fix this. In the meantime, the -OpenGL driver has been enabled in the IDE and can be selected through the -View/Drivers menu for better performance. Ecere applications now also check -the environment variable ECERE_DRIVER which will override the default. -Setting it to OpenGL will make all Ecere applications use it by default. + in ~/.ecereIDE/config.econ .