Xft provides a client-side font api for x applications, making the freetype font rasterizer available to x clients. fontconfig is used for font specification resolution. where available, the render extension handles glyph drawing; otherwise, the core x protocol is used.

this package provides an unstripped shared object with debugging symbols, useful to provide a backtrace with symbol names in a debugger; this facilitates interpretation of core dumps, and aids in finding logic errors in programs using this library (or the library itself). the library is installed in /usr/lib/debug and can be used by placing that directory in the ld_library_path environment variable when the code to be debugged is executed. non-programmers will likely have little use for this package, and should use libxft2 instead.