On 21 Aug 2003, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 16:51, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > > > After installing msttcorefonts, cabextract and x-ttcidfont-conf yesterday, > > the X server is crashing after running xfontsel. > > > > And it seems it doesn't matter whether I choose "xtt" or "freetype" when > > configuring x-ttcidfont-conf: the X server is either crashing in both > > cases. Or, if the server does not crash, xfontsel crashes, rendering it > > unusable. > > Well, xfontsel crashing is better than the X server crashing, isn't it? > :)
If you want to tell me by that, that in the meantime - after my first 2 or 3 months with a Debian Linux system - that I should have become used to a system where a lot of things don't work: Yes, I'm on the brink of getting used to it. But it doesn't help. :) > > If the other hints don't help, you could try using a font server instead > of an X server TT font renderer module. Ooops, Thanks for the hint :) ... I already have xfs running. Or isn't this the font server you were writing about ...? Here's the (a ?) config file: /etc/X11/fs/config (reformatted for the post here): ########################################################## # font server configuration file # $Xorg: config.cpp,v 1.3 2000/08/17 19:54:19 cpqbld Exp $ # allow a maximum of 10 clients to connect to this font server client-limit = 10 # when a font server reaches its limit, start up a new one clone-self = on # log messages to /var/log/xfs.log (if syslog is not used) error-file = /var/log/xfs.log # log errors using syslog use-syslog = on # turn off TCP port listening (Unix domain connections are still permitted) no-listen = tcp # paths to search for fonts catalogue = /usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID/, /usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/, /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/, /usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/, /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType/, /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/CID/ # in decipoints default-point-size = 120 # x1,y1,x2,y2,... default-resolutions = 100,100,75,75 # font cache control, specified in kB cache-hi-mark = 2048 cache-low-mark = 1433 cache-balance = 70 ######################################################### The basic problem I have here, is that on Debian I have a whole bunch (or perhaps better: a wonderful mess) of different font config files: XF86Config-4, XftConfig, in /etc/fonts/ fonts.conf and local.conf, in /etc/X11/fs/ config and xfs.options, the config files for defoma, my personal font config in .xinitrc I simply stop here; but I wouldn't be astonished to find a dozen more if I went on trying to find some. Does anybody out there know, whether there is a single human being among the Debian folks who is aware of the fact that a font system like the one on Debian is not only a bad joke but, if I see this correctly, simply gaga? That this font system is definitely unusable? And I'd bet it's not only unusable for non-X-coders but even for the X-developers themselves. My guess is this mess is a Debian-specific one, i.e. one that was caused by the way the Debian folks organize the fonts on Debian, and not one which is caused by the X-developers. Am I right? Situations like that is why I say that Debian-Linux does not work for people with a girl-friend or a family, or for folks who need to get a job done on a computer in a reasonable amount of time. Or for folks who simply like watching shadows on the wall (John Lennon :) or the stars above them. I'd guess it's a system for folks not knowing what to do with their lives if they had a working OS on their computer. Is there some hope that this situation will change on Debian? Or do Debian folks like kissing their screens instead of their wifes or girl-friends ... ? I'm talking of Debian-Linux because even on a 2 or 3 year old i386 RedHat 6.2 the font situation, IIRC, by far was not that ugly as it is here on Debian. Best Regards, Wolfgang -- Profile, Links: http://profiles.yahoo.com/wolfgangpfeiffer
