On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 22:07 +0200, Fredrik Tolf wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 23:31 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> > Fredrik Tolf wrote:
> > > My main problem is that xfs (the X font server, not the filesystem) hogs
> > > the CPU for about 2-3 seconds whenever I start a new xterm, blocking the
> > > new xterm during that time. I haven't found the exact extent of programs
> > > affected by the problem -- right now, I only know that xterm and twm are
> > > affected.
> > >
> > > I've tried turning off xfs and moving the FontPaths into the X server
> > > itself, but that only made the problem worse (taking 6+ seconds instead).
> >
> > Does a symlink /usr/share/fonts/fonts exist?
>
> Nope, and I never had it. Should it exist? In that case, whence should
> it point?
To follow up on this, the problem turned out to be the lack of CJK
fonts. When I installed font-{jis,isas,daewoo}-misc, it started working
just fine.
Fredrik Tolf
--
gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
