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Hi, would you like to change your license to GPL, please. This would make it possible to actually put it into Linux distributions repositories.

Thanks.

The daemon now assumes and enforces that it has write permissions literally everywhere. It must run as root. This is not necessary and the daemon should be able to run as a user other than root.

The program should still attempt to create the folders it need, but it should not fail if it does not have write permissions in the root directory.

Hi,
I like the idea (and thank you for developing such a useful tool), but can not imagine how it works.

Would you please explain:

-Where do I find a MacOSX installer?

-How does it run on windows? As a service, or just a simple.exe which the user must start everytime by hand? (Same for MacOSX)

-Has it an autoupdate? Or does the user needs to check manually?

-Will it delete existing fonts?

-Will the created fonts bedazzle Winword/Pages or any other program, which uses fonts? (i.e. will Photoshop rescan the Fonts folder on every start and re-index the new fonts, which will probably take a wile)

-How much CPU will it cost? And when?

-Do I need a doctor's degree for this? WTF is a makefile...? ;-D

Hi,

I want to know what version of fluxfontsd I've got. I guess I could've added the version in the exe's name when I installed it but a version switch would be better, IMO, or at least nice to have. Maybe even an -h or --help or a man page.

If I get time I'll dig into the code myself to do this.

Regards,
yb

Just realized that this program in last months got several updates 👍

I installed the last 2.2 version on W10, and tested with a non customised FF Portable 104.

The app seems to work quite well.

Maybe 2 things you could improve:

1. the delay betwen 2 fonts spoofings varies from 2mn to 40 mn.... Could you make the upper limit adjustable (at least for testing purpose... it's really a pain to have to wait sometimes 40 mn when testing).

2. Tests on browserleaks show that the font fingerprint varies, but the unicode glyphs fingerprint remain always the same. Would'nt be a way to spoof it too?

Thank you for the reply!
"make" worked, but the 2nd command gives a new error.

/usr/bin/install -d /usr/local/share/doc/fluxfonts
/usr/bin/install -S AUTHORS COPYING README /usr/local/share/doc/fluxfonts
/usr/bin/install -d /usr/local/bin
/usr/bin/install -S fluxfontd /usr/local/bin
make: * No rule to make target `[install-daemon]'. Stop.

Originally posted by @JKatsenelinboigen in #10 (comment)

Both websites referenced by this project seem to be down:
https://www.slightfuture.com/projects/fluxfonts/index.html
https://www.aeyoun.com/projects/fluxfonts/index.html

I have had FluxFonts installed for a while now, but I cannot tell if it's working, but I don't believe that it is. I have checked Browserleak's font tester webpage hoping to be able to see a difference in the visible fonts after a while, but it's never changed. I believe that the program isn't working correctly, as searching for "fluxfontd" in Console shows multiple lines of this:

7/15/15 12:22:22.665 PM fluxfontd[2976]: Neither the `/run/lock/` nor `/var/lock/` directories are read-writeable!

I believe that that is the problem (I'm on OS X Yosemite 10.10.4) as to why it's not working. I got the error above after installing the package from your webpage, which states itself as version 1.1. But since that doesn't seem to work, I then tried to build it from source and ran the fluxfontd again and I received this message (almost identical):

7/15/15 2:08:14.003 PM fluxfontd[11860]: Neither the '/run/' nor '/var/run/' directories are read-writable! Exiting.

I assume that the program isn't working properly, and if is isn't how do I get it to work?
Also, what is the proper way to check that it is working?

Should ideally resolve these issues to allow compilation with the last version of Apple gcc 4.2.1. I may yet decide this compiler is simply too old.

gcc -liconv -Wall -std=c99 -g -arch x86_64 -arch i386 main.c lib/buffer.c lib/familyname.c lib/opentype.c lib/utils.c lib/tables/cff.c lib/tables/cmap.c lib/tables/head.c lib/tables/hhea.c lib/tables/hmtx.c lib/tables/maxp.c lib/tables/name.c lib/tables/os2.c lib/tables/post.c lib/tables/tables.c -o fluxfontd -lm
In file included from lib/opentype.h:44,
                 from main.h:41,
                 from main.c:36:
lib/tables/tables.h:50: warning: declaration does not declare anything
In file included from lib/opentype.h:44,
                 from lib/opentype.c:36:
lib/tables/tables.h:50: warning: declaration does not declare anything
lib/opentype.c: In function ‘assemble_opentype_font’:
lib/opentype.c:48: error: ‘OTF_OFFSET_TABLE’ has no member named ‘tag’
lib/opentype.c:48: error: ‘OTF_OFFSET_TABLE’ has no member named ‘tag’
lib/opentype.c:48: error: ‘OTF_OFFSET_TABLE’ has no member named ‘tag’
lib/opentype.c:48: error: ‘OTF_OFFSET_TABLE’ has no member named ‘tag’
In file included from lib/tables/tables.c:36:
lib/tables/tables.h:50: warning: declaration does not declare anything
In file included from lib/opentype.h:44,
                 from main.h:41,
                 from main.c:36:
lib/tables/tables.h:50: warning: declaration does not declare anything
In file included from lib/opentype.h:44,
                 from lib/opentype.c:36:
lib/tables/tables.h:50: warning: declaration does not declare anything
lib/opentype.c: In function ‘assemble_opentype_font’:
lib/opentype.c:48: error: ‘OTF_OFFSET_TABLE’ has no member named ‘tag’
lib/opentype.c:48: error: ‘OTF_OFFSET_TABLE’ has no member named ‘tag’
lib/opentype.c:48: error: ‘OTF_OFFSET_TABLE’ has no member named ‘tag’
lib/opentype.c:48: error: ‘OTF_OFFSET_TABLE’ has no member named ‘tag’
In file included from lib/tables/tables.c:36:
lib/tables/tables.h:50: warning: declaration does not declare anything
lipo: can't figure out the architecture type of: /var/folders/kg/84wq6w0s0lz3czw_nmycrn4w0000gn/T//ccKN4jBW.out
make: *** [build] Error 1

I found out that Fluxfonts crashed now 2 different times already during normal operation in the background. Before the second crash, the RAM consumption was displayed unusually low at about 300 KB, even though it was still able to process the cycle.

Do you think you can get to the source of this problem?

The idea behind Fluxfonts is great, unfortunately us "mainstream" Windows users are not able to use it and there are no equivalent programs available to my knowledge. You wrote that "Windows is unsupported at this time.", is a port planned in the future? How much effort do you think would it take to port it to Windows?

I am trying to install fluxfonts on a macbook running Mojave, and it is giving me an error.
I extracted the zip file and ran the terminal in the folder.
both "make" and "make install [install-daemon] [--prefix=/usr/local]" give an error along the lines of "The i386 architecture is deprecated for macOS"
Here is the full error transcript: https://pastebin.com/Jbhp6X9k

Any help is appreciated, thanks!

Locked by svchost.exe -k localservice -s FontCache. No debug symbols for this process.

May interfere with font removal and availability. Not really my bug, I believe as its a system service that fails to release the lock.