Xft

Xft
Xft
Original author	Keith Packard
Stable release	2.3.9 / 20 April 2025 (20 April 2025)
Type	Software library
License	MIT/X license ; (The Open Group)
Website	freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Xft
Repository	gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libxft ;

Xft, the X FreeType interface library, is a free computer program library written by Keith Packard.³ ⁴ It uses the MIT/X license that The Open Group applied after the post X11R6.4 license restoration.²

It is designed to allow the FreeType font rasterizer to be used with the X Rendering Extension; it is generally employed to use FreeType's anti-aliased fonts with the X Window System. Xft also depends on fontconfig for access to the system fonts.

References

Thomas E. Dickey (20 April 2025). https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg/2025-April/061938.html. Retrieved 23 April 2025. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
"X/MIT Licenses". XFree86 4.0.1. Retrieved April 2, 2020.
Keith Packard (2001-11-08). "The Xft Font Library: Architecture and Users Guide". Proceedings of the 5th Annual Conference on Linux Showcase & Conference. 5. USENIX Association: 22.
Roderick W. Smith. Linux in a Windows World. O'Reilly. p. 458.

External links

[wikidata-4fd160938709b044f6f3affa08cfbcf270b88531-v20-1] Thomas E. Dickey (20 April 2025). https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg/2025-April/061938.html. Retrieved 23 April 2025. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

[tog-license-2] "X/MIT Licenses". XFree86 4.0.1. Retrieved April 2, 2020.

[3] Keith Packard (2001-11-08). "The Xft Font Library: Architecture and Users Guide". Proceedings of the 5th Annual Conference on Linux Showcase & Conference. 5. USENIX Association: 22.

[4] Roderick W. Smith. Linux in a Windows World. O'Reilly. p. 458.

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