On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 08:58:25AM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 08:18:58AM +0100, Peter Whysall wrote: > > On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 07:22, Lars Jensen wrote: > > > The problem seemed to be that xfs, the X fonts server, was installed. xfs > > > apparently isn't needed when running XFree4?! > > > > That's true. If you load the freetype and type1 modules, and have the > > appropriate FontPath entries in XF86Config-4, you can do without xfs. > > > > However, if you do use xfs, you can dink around with your fonts without > > having to restart X itself - you only need to restart the X font server. > > I use xfs for this reason. > > Actually, you can (allegedly) change the font path for an already-running > server via xset, without restarting it.
Yep. "xset +fp /some/dir/with/fonts/" adds a font path, and "xset fp rehash" reindexes the font paths in case you added or removed fonts from them. Peter De Wachter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
