> Cyrille Chepelov wrote: > Le Tue, May 21, 2002, à 11:32:23AM +0930, Young, Robert a écrit: > > > > If it exists, we can use it. In fact, we can include > > > hard-coded common > > > font paths as well. The more the merrier. > > > > Should I put this in diarc? I don't think it belongs in the > preferences > > dialog, and if we include enough defaults for most of the > known world, the > > FAQ can point them to playing with diarc? Mind you, this > question is posed > > before I look at the code... > > Hmmm... Since the reason for this setting would be the lack > of a working > font path with the system (almost a bug in the OS' > XF86Config, IMO), thus > the lack of a bunch of fonts (a detectable condition), we > could even pop a > message up (ONCE !) pointing the user to the manual/to the > FAQ on how to > tweak this diarc setting. This would help us be very comfortable with > ignoring PEBKAC/googlelessness/lack of FAQ-reading > skills-type of questions > on that topic.
It isn't that XF86Config is wrong (IMO) because XF86Config isn't using these fonts - it has XFS to do that for it. Hence it removes any fonts from the X font path which don't contain fonts which it knows about. Of course, this could be the wrong thing to do... I've attached a patch against 0.90RC1 which looks in xfs's config file for more font paths. Now I have lots more fonts!! I haven't done any diarc interfacing - any ideas?? Please feel free to ask for improvements before applying the patch :-) Regards, Rob.
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