On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 16:06:44 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Hi Julien, > > Julien Cristau wrote: > > On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 10:59:01 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > > >> Trying to address <http://bugs.debian.org/563250> (xvile appearance > >> wrong due to missing font), I installed xfonts-100dpi. Alas: > >> > >> $ xmessage -fn lucidasans-10 It was the best of times > >> Warning: Cannot convert string "lucidasans-10" to type FontStruct > >> $ xlsfonts | grep lucida > >> $ > >> > >> Restarting X makes the font show up. > [...] > > Not really. Run xset fp rehash after installing fonts, there's no way > > for update-fonts-dir to know which (possibly remote) X server may want > > to use the new fonts. > > Perhaps this could be documented somewhere, or it could be > automatically done by the calling maintainer script for the local X > server? The problem is still present: after installing X fonts on a > pretty ordinary setup, they are not available for use. Most new users > are not going to know about "xset fp rehash". > They're also not going to be using xmessage, and client-side fonts are immediately picked up by fontconfig/xft/... on install. So I think this is a non-issue.
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