bob-infinality-bundle

These are SlackBuilds & patches to rebuild some official packages in Slackware Linux, are in test so be careful with the result in your system.

infinality-bundle project

"infinality-bundle is a collection of software utilizing the power of font rendering offered by infinality patches and fontconfig rules known as fontconfig-infinality-ultimate."

• Project: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Infinality-bundle%2Bfonts
• Source code: https://github.com/bohoomil/fontconfig-ultimate

Using

Important: backup /etc/fonts/ before you install fontconfig and remove any personal configuration (~/.fonts.conf, ~/.fonts.conf.d or ~/.config/fontconfig) to avoid any issue.

1. Clone this repository

root@darkstar:~# git clone https://github.com/nihilismus/bob-infinality-bundle

2. Build, remove and install packages following this order:

   1. source/l/freetype
   2. source/x/fontconfig
   3. source/l/cairo

   Or just execute as root install.sh.

Notes

• At this moment these SlackBuilds are from and for Slackware64 Linux -current, but they should work with Slackware Linux -current also.
• I tried to make the minimal modificactions to the originals Slackbuilds.
• There is not need to select a type of font rendering (Windows, Apple or Ubuntu) since the "aim of infinality-bundle is to make use of the vast potential hidden in native Linux font rendering back-end". This does not mean you can not configure some aspects of the font rendering, please check:
  • /etc/profile.d/infinality-settings.sh
  • /usr/doc/fontconfig-*/fontconfig-infinality-ultimate
• You can see the differences between the default font rendering and the patched one, (from Slackware 14.1):
  • Default: https://www.dropbox.com/s/xiyeyvs457nb1um/slackware-14.1-default-font.png
  • Patched: https://www.dropbox.com/s/awqgc8wg3djviqe/slackware-14.1-patched-font.png