libxft-bgra VS dwm-flexipatch

The workaround before the libXft upstream was corrected was to install (or manually patch the fixes from) libXft-bgra.

I've attempted to patch libXft with libxft-bgra -> https://github.com/uditkarode/libxft-bgra I've executed the make install portion, how can I now replace the libXft with the libXft-bgra? When I try to: xbps-remove libXft I get: libXft-2.3.4_1 in transaction breaks installed pkg \libXft-devel-2.3.4_1 ~... pango-xft ~...sxiv-26_1` and many other dependencies. When I add them to my xbps-remove command, eventually even xorg would need to be removed.

Your crashes might be due to a problem in libxft, there is a patched version that manages to render the emojis correctly.

use this

not really sure but maybe something to do with https://github.com/uditkarode/libxft-bgra

git clone https://github.com/uditkarode/libxft-bgra cd libxft-bgra sh autogen.sh --sysconfdir=/etc --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man

Did you get this working? I've installed the Noto Color Emoji, removed the lines that avoid dmenu to crash, cloned the repo https://github.com/uditkarode/libxft-bgra , compiled it, but still not working.

However, if I were to implement something like 15+ patches then i would just use flexi patch to quickly apply patches - https://github.com/bakkeby/dwm-flexipatch.

I posted an issue with flexipatch's savefloats patch https://github.com/bakkeby/dwm-flexipatch/issues/362 which I believe to be a bug in the way the patch is supposed to handle layout switching.

Check out dwm-flexipatch!

And if you want a quick way to install patches then you should checkout u/bakkeby 's https://github.com/bakkeby/dwm-flexipatch.

do yourself a favor and use https://github.com/bakkeby/dwm-flexipatch ... patching with much less trouble

and i would recommend to use dwm-flexipatch, it makes the hole patching process very easy, and you can try out all the patches...

I just wanted to add that if anyone is experiencing this issue and using dwm-flexipatch then enabling the patch BAR_NO_COLOR_EMOJI_PATCH may solve the issue.

if your not scared of changing basic C files the most lightweight you’ll get is probably dwm, try out this to more easily patch dwm if you do decide to use it.

a lot of functionality can be added with patches, but you have to try and juggle those all yourself (and work out any conflicts between them yourself) - there are some projects like dwm-flexipatch to try and make it easier to deal with them, but it's way more trouble than I am interested in