[iPAQ] xstroke & rxvt issue

On Jan 7, Luc Pionchon wrote:
> from familiar 0.5,
> rxvt does not let xstroke grab the input, the stilus just select area, and
> no stroke is drawn,
> so i have to draw my strokes out of the term area - and that's not fun at
> all!

By default rxvt does not interact well with the latest versions of
xstroke. The xstroke web-page now has some notes on how this can be
overcome by patching the application:

http://www.east.isi.edu/projects/DSN/xstroke/index.html#interaction

> rxvt-aa does, but IMHO so small antialiased fonts are not readable.

The rxvt-aa build came from the rxvt code-base in CVS at keithp.com. I
patched the code there to be xstroke-friendly.

(BTW, good antialiased fonts render quite beautifully at a wide range
of sizes. See the familiar-postinst package for an easy mechanism to
download some high quality fonts).

> is there any way to make xstroke working with rxvt?
> or how to use non-aa fonts with rxvt-aa?
> any hint?

If you would like to patch rxvt, you can use the instructions at the
URL, (or maybe reference my changes in CVS for rxvt-aa).

If you don't feel much like hacking, you should be able to run
"xstroke -noauto" to make xstroke work in "full-screen all the time"
mode, to workaround this problem. The unpleasant side effect is that
you will then have to disable xstroke every time you want to use a
scroll-bar for example.

-Carl

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