On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 00:19:39 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What I meant by "don't work" is that, as you mention, these two options > are no-ops. > > According to the update-fonts-dir(1) man page, these options should not > be no-ops: > =============== > update-fonts-dir creates a fonts.dir file in an X font directory by > invoking mkfontdir(1x) with the appropriate arguments....For each > directory, which is simply the last component of its path (such as > '75dpi' or 'misc'), update-fonts-dir will generate either > /usr/lib/X11/fonts/directory/fonts.dir or > /usr/share/fonts/X11/directory/fonts.dir from the fonts.scale and font > files found within it. > > -7, --x11r7-layout switches the font layout to the one introduced in > X11R7: fonts in /usr/share/fonts/X11/directory (default is: fonts in > /usr/lib/X11/fonts/directory) > =============== > The manpage is outdated.
> Here are examples of what happens in practice on Etch (4.0r3, i386 DVD > install), showing where the man page says the program should look versus > what actually happens. > > Invocation: update-fonts-dir misc > Documented Path: /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc > Actual Path: /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc > Status: works as advertised (and complains that > /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc doesn't exist) > No. It looks in both the old and the new paths. Did you actually look at the script? Cheers, Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
